[DAWN] KARACHI: Four people, two belonging to Thar and Jamshoro, died of as many lethal diseases ‐ Congo-Crimean Haemorrhagic Fever, Naegleria fowleri, dengue and rabies ‐ in the city’s public and private sector hospitals in the past two days, officials said on Monday.A 27-year-old man, identified as Wakil Khan, a resident of New Bloody Karachi
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, died at a private hospital on Monday because of the deadly Naegleria infection, generally known as brain-eating amoeba.
Wakil was brought in a critical condition to the hospital a day earlier with high-grade fever and profuse bleeding. He was tested positive for the deadly infection caused by a germ that enters the human body through the nasal cavity and attacks its victim’s brain.
Officials in the Sindh health ministry said it was the 16th such death caused by Naegleria in the province this year.