The most terrifying parasite: Amoeba eats the brain (Video)
This post is not for the faint of heart. However, parasites This is a real thing, and it’s helpful to know what doctors sometimes need to deal with.
This time we will talk about amoeba. There is a great variety among these unicellular organisms in the world, and the absolute majority of them are harmless to humans, especially when our immune system is functioning normally. Others can become deadly due to their ability to cause diseases ranging from dysentery to encephalitis. But there is a kind – Naegleria fowleri – is especially dangerous, because through evolution it has acquired a special and deadly taste for the human brain.
Below you will find a video from the creators Kurzgesagt About the parasite is perhaps the most terrible of them all: a brain-eating amoeba, commonly found in warm freshwater, including lakes, rivers, ponds and hot springs. Here, you will learn about what it is, how it can enter our bodies and why its behavior is so deadly: