
Brain-Eating Disease in Kerala: Rising Deaths Spark Alarm
On the eve of Onam, one of Kerala’s biggest festivals, tragedy struck when 45-year-old Sobhana from Malappuram district died after suddenly developing fever and violent shivers. Doctors had initially diagnosed only dizziness and high blood pressure, but later confirmed she carried Naegleria fowleri, a rare organism often called the brain-eating amoeba. This deadly infection, known…