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What is a brain eating amoeba?

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What bugs can eat your brain?

Yes there is. One is the famous brain eating amoeba.


Can amoeba damage liver and brain tissues?

Several enzymes released by the amoeba are able to dissolve the host's tissues, giving access to the brain. Once in the brain, the amoeba causes damage


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An example of parasitism in water is the Naegleria fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba. This parasite is normally found in bodies of warm, fresh water.


What is the scientific name for the brain eating ameba?

The scientific name for the brain-eating amoeba is Naegleria fowleri. It is a free-living amoeba that can cause a rare but often fatal infection called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) in humans.


What is a tooth amoeba?

This an amoeba that lives around your teeth eating bits of food. It doesn't usually bother us but can. How it got there is for you to guess.


What are the two jobs of the Amoeba?

the two main jobs are eating and reproduction.


What disease is caused by the ameba?

The name of the amoeba is Naegleria fowleri, also known as the "brain-eating amoeba" that can cause an infection, or disease. It lives in fresh water and there is a case where a person got infected with it while wakeboarding on a lake in Florida.


Why do larger organisms need a circulatory system and amoeba do not?

We are eukaryote which means are cells are more advanced than there's. And since we have more cells than a amoeba. Our cells carry oxygen to the brain and other organs in the body. A amoeba dose not have a brain. So it doesn't need a circulatory system.


Do protozoa have a nervous system?

An amoeba is considered a "single cell organism" and does not have a brain.


What current event is similar and affecting children today?

The current event would be the brain eating amoeba. The brain eating ameoba was found in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana( which is to the east of New Orleans.) Some reporters said "It was okay to swallow to water, but do not inhale it." What would hapen if you were infected is it would go and attack your brain. Soon, after it attacking your brain for so long, you would become weaker and weaker each day until soon you die.


Does the ameba have a nucleus?

The nucleus in an Amoeba controls everything that goes on in th cell. It is the brain of the cell.