{"id":142020,"date":"2022-07-11T13:26:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T18:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/rare-brain-eating-infection-found-in-missouri-patient-heres-how-to-protect-yourself"},"modified":"2022-07-11T13:26:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T18:26:29","slug":"rare-brain-eating-infection-found-in-missouri-patient-heres-how-to-protect-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/rare-brain-eating-infection-found-in-missouri-patient-heres-how-to-protect-yourself","title":{"rendered":"Rare brain-eating infection found in Missouri patient; here\u2019s how to protect yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-brain-eating-infection-found-in-missouri-patient-heres-how-to-protect-yourself2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), the infection is caused by a microscopic single-celled free-living ameba found in warm freshwater called Naegleria fowleri.<\/p>\n<p>The Missouri patient is currently being treated for PAM in an intensive care unit of a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The ameba is commonly found in warm freshwater such as lakes, rivers, and ponds; however, PAM is extremely rare. Since 1962, only 154 known cases have been identified in the United States. The only other case identified among a Missouri resident occurred in 1987, and currently, no additional suspected cases of PAM are being investigated in Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), the infection is caused by a microscopic single-celled free-living ameba found in warm freshwater called Naegleria fowleri. The Missouri patient is currently being treated for PAM in an intensive care unit of a hospital. The ameba is commonly found in warm freshwater such as lakes, rivers, and ponds; however, PAM [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}