A 69-year-old resident of Seattle (USA) died after she was ill for a year from an extremely dangerous microorganism that penetrated her brain with tap water.
At first, a strange rash appeared on the woman's nose, but the doctors could not understand its cause, although the woman was tested several times.
When only a year later, doctors diagnosed her with complete destruction of part of the brain caused by the rare carnivorous amoeba of the species Balamuthia mandrillari, it was too late (paranormal-news.ru)
An unnamed elderly woman from Seattle developed sinusitis and was advised by her doctor to rinse her nose with saline from sterilized water. However, the woman decided that ordinary tap water, which passed through a simple filter from the supermarket, was enough for rinsing.
A month later, the woman had a rash on her nose, which baffled dermatologists. A year later, the woman began to have problems with brain activity and she could not control her left hand.
When she was taken to the hospital, she underwent a CT scan, and a small tumor-like abnormality was found in her brain, only one and a half centimeters in diameter. In the photo below, the anomaly is highlighted by a bright spot in images A and B.
The doctors decided that they were dealing with a cancerous tumor and sent the patient to take a biopsy. But a week later, the woman was again admitted to the hospital, and this time, in addition to problems with her arm, she began to have problems with her leg.
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When she was again scanned, the doctors were scared, realizing that the bright area of the "tumor" in her brain became even larger. It was then that the first assumption was made about the carnivorous amoeba that penetrated the brain.
The medical team urgently contacted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and requested a new drug to treat amoebic infection to the hospital. However, it was already too late.
Despite the use of drugs and urgent surgery, the woman was getting worse every day. A week later, she fell into a coma and died.
During the operation, the surgeons were shocked by what they saw.
The amoeba Balamuthia mandrillari is often found in water and land, but cases of human infection with it are extremely rare. However, the worst part is that almost all of them ended in the death of patients. The amoeba Balamuthia mandrillari does not give humans any chance of survival.
Moreover, this amoeba was discovered only in 1986 and this is a completely new and still poorly understood danger to humanity. Globally, only about 200 people have since become infected with it, including 70 in the United States.
A water filter can protect water from harmful impurities and other large contamination, but it does not protect against amoeba.