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Growing Global Health Threat Posed by Brain-Eating Amoebae, Warns Study

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New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) The free-living amoebae, also known as brain-eating amoebae, are becoming a growing global public health threat, warned a new study.Climate change, ageing water infrastructure, and gaps in monitoring and detection are making the dangerous group of pathogens lurk freely in water and the environment, warned the team of environmental and public health scientists, in the article published in the journal Biocontaminant.“What makes these organisms particularly dangerous is th…