A warning in Kerala state in India as cases of “eating” eating in the brain. Health news

At least 19 deaths and 72 infections of Naegleria Fowleri Amoeba have been recorded this year, more than twice the comparison last year.

The authorities in the southern state of Kerala in India issued a healthy alert after the infections and deaths caused by the rare ampia that transports the water more than twice than last year.

Officials said on Wednesday that the state of Kerala recorded 69 cases of primary amalgian meningitis since the beginning of 2025, including 19 deaths, after contact with Naegleria Fowleri Amoeba. Three deaths were recorded last month, including a three -month -old child.

Last year, there were nine deaths from 36 cases reported.

Amiba, which does not spread from person to person, lives in warm lakes and rivers and is contracted by the contaminated water that enters the nose.

“Unlike last year, we do not see groups linked to one source of water,” the state’s Minister of Health in Vienna, George said. “These are one isolated cases, which complicated our epidemic investigations.”

The Kerala State government has started wells in chlorine, water tanks and public bath areas, and the areas that people likely to bath and touch with the amoeba, according to NDTV.

“Cases throughout the country”

While the numbers remain low, the doctor who is part of a government workplace to prevent proliferation, officials said that “they are conducting wide -scale tests throughout the state to detect and treat cases.”

“It is worrying that the new cases this year have appeared from all over the state, instead of specific pockets in the past,” said Ilatieh Ali to Agence France -Presse.

According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), infections are “very rare but always fatal”.

The health agency says it is often called “amoeba that eats the brain” because it “can” affect the brain and destroy the brain tissue. “If it reaches the brain, amoeba can cause an infection that kills more than 95 percent of the affected.

The World Health Organization says that symptoms include headache, fever and vomiting, which are rapidly advancing to “seizures, changing mental, hallucinogenic, and coma.”

The first case of infection was reported in Kerala state in 2016.

Since 1962, nearly 500 cases have been reported all over the world, most of them in the United States, India, Pakistan and Australia.