Gardener's brain 'turned to liquid' by flesh-eating killer pot plant bug

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New England Journal of Medicine. He later sadly died. The patient also had a history of B-cell lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, but had been in remission for more than a decade.The patient.info site describes how the free living amoeba kill people: "Free-living amoebae cause rare but devastating disease.

They are able to exist as free-living organisms in nature and only occasionally invade a host and live as parasites within host tissue."The lack of established success in treatment means that there is no single, proven, evidence-based treatment that carries a high probability of cure."Most cases are not identified until post-mortem, due to the lack of good and reliable diagnostic tests and secondary infections being more common."Symptoms.