Kerala man dies of suspected ‘brain-eating’ amoeba infection
A 38-year-old man from Kerala has died from suspected amoebic meningoencephalitis, a rare infection caused by an amoeba called Naegleria fowleri. The man, who had returned home from Mumbai after falling ill, was initially treated at a hospital in Kasaragod before being transferred to Kannur where he was diagnosed with the infection. He was treated…