Brain-eating amoeba claims life of 14-year-old Kerala boy, marking 3rd death in 3 months
A 14-year-old from the Kerala town of Kozhikode, who was under treatment for an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba, lost his life on Wednesday. The infection was identified as amoebic meningoencephalitis, a rare and often fatal brain infection caused by a free-living amoeba found in contaminated water. This marked the third such death in …