Parasitic meningitis, a usually fatal brain infection that can occur after swimming or irrigating, flushing, or rinsing one's sinuses, has been detected in a 12-year-old girl from Arkansas.
The
brain infection formally known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) can
occur when people dive in warm freshwater places such as lakes and rivers. The Naegleria fowleri ameba is a single-celled living
organism and a parasite that travels up the nose to the brain where it destroys
the brain tissue.
