[DAWN] KARACHI Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the 'brain-eating amoeba', has claimed the life of its youngest victim — a nine-month-old girl — as the corpse count blamed on the deadly amoeba reached six within two months in Sindh, officials said on Wednesday.They said Mahnoor, a daughter of Mohammad Imran, died in a local hospital two days after she was admitted there in a precarious condition.
The lethal germs infected the girl's brain through her nasal cavity after she had been given a bath by her family in their house in Railway Housing Society in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Block-13, said a bigwig in the provincial health department.
The officials said she was admitted to the hospital on July 11 and died on July 13. It took them three days to officially confirm that her case belonged to the naegleria attack.
"She is the youngest victim of naegleria since 2012 when the disease emerged," said a health department official.
"A four-year-old boy was previously the youngest victim who died in 2012."
The sources said that the neighbourhood, where the fatality had been reported had showed a very low chlorination level in the water supplied through Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Water and Sewerage Board pipelines when the samples were recently taken and analysed.