A brain-eating amoeba has killed at least 10 people in Pakistan's most populous city since May, a World Health Organisation official said on Tuesday. Naegleria fowleri has a fatality rate of more than 98 per cent. It is transmitted when contaminated water enters the body through the nose and cannot be passed person-to-person.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-10/deadly-brain-eating-disease-kills-10-in-pakistan/4304348
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