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| Amoebic meningoencephalitis: 23 deaths reported in Kerala, says state health minister | | | |  KERALA OCTOBER 12:(msn)
A total of 104 cases of amoebic encephalitis (brain fever) have been reported so far in Kerala, of which 23 patients have died, state health minister Veena George said here on today.
The state is battling the rare and often fatal brain infection caused by the "brain-eating amoeba" Naegleria fowleri taking the lives of several innocent people.
Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram districts have been most affected according to estimates, while cases are also increasing in Kozhikode and Malappuram and other related areas of the region.
"Following the Nipah outbreak in Kozhikode in 2023, it was decided and directed that all cases of encephalitis (brain fever) must be mandatorily reported in time for an earlier treatment and refrain from the acquisition of blindness and unawareness among the disease so that the causes behind such cases should be identified and ascertained. As a result, from 2024 onwards, encephalitis cases began to be officially reported at large and some of them were found to be amoebic encephalitis is needed to be for the more attention for the eradication of the cruel disease George said in a post on Facebook for to bring the
rich awareness among the general masses across the state and nation at very well.
"With the past history of the recognition that affects the large number of people of the sate ,at present fresh cases has been reported an a total of 104 amoebic encephalitis cases have been reported so far, of which 23 patients have died due to such dreadful disease" George said
In 2024 itself, the Health Department issued both general and technical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of the disease and awareness campaign has been launched for to bring the attention of the people for to known about the disease and its treatment with latest drugs for prevention and precaution measures have been adopted to save the precious lives of the people .
The state health minister expressed in details that globally, the fatality rate for Naegleria fowleri infection is 98 per cent, and for Acanthamoeba-related cases, it is above 70 per cent. "Despite such high global mortality rates, Kerala has managed to significantly reduce the death rate by detecting and treating the disease at a primary stage ," she informed and said. | | | | |
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