Brain Eating Amoeba (PAM) A Rare Disease: Systematic Review

Amoebas are single celled organism. The Brain Eating Amoeba is a species found in the year of 1965. Its formalname is Naegleria Fowleri. It is usually resides in contaminated water when it enters human body through thenose and it will causes the rare and deadly infection and inflammation in the brain and it destroys the brain tissueby eating it. Usually doctors call this as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). Symptoms include fever,headache, stiff neck, vomiting, and loss of appetite, seizure and coma. Accurate diagnosis is not yet possiblebut spinal tapping, physical examination will be helpful and treatment includes usually symptomatic based andsurvival rate is only 3% in the world among the PAM cases. As per the recent report related to the Brain EatingAmoeba Infections spreading in Kerala state significantly in 2025 and few lost their life due to the rare diseaseThe Brain Eating Amoeba and this has mortality rate 97% in different parts of the world.