A man's brain turned liquid after he came in contact with rare free-living amoebas while he was gardening in his backyard.
The rare infection turned the man's brain to 'liquid'. Photo / New England Journal of Medicine.
A contaminated soil proved to be killer when an 82-year-old man caught a rare infection caused by free-living amoebas (FLA) which is usually found in soil. The man died just days after being being in contact of the contaminated soil while he was potting plants, causing his brain to become ‘liquid’.
Before getting to the hospital, the person felt sick for 2 weeks. His health issues rapidly increased as the days passed. A report said that he also had a history of B-cell lymphoma, a kind of blood cancer, but had been arrested for quite a decade.
After the admission to the hospital, researchers from Emory University in Atlanta wrote within the New England Journal of drugs, that the patient became weak from the proper side and developed an “altered mental status”.
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The condition of the patient getting worsen where he possesses seizures and experienced drowsiness, despite having treatment for bacterial, fungal and viral meningitis.
An abnormality in his left lobe which helps control language related movement also gets affected revealed within the MRI scan. After his first MRI scan the second scan shows that he had large lesion within the lobe.
The elderly man died nine days after being admitted to a hospital, the report read, however it didn’t disclose which hospital or where the person lived. An autopsy revealed he died from “liquefactive necrosis” partially of his brain.
It also identified an acanthamoeba species, which allowed doctors to diagnose him with granulomatous amoebic encephalitis – a rare, and typically fatal, central systema nervosum disease caused by free-living amoebas. Doctors wrote between the reports that “The amoeba is transmitted through contact with soil or water”.
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