Brain eating amoebia kills two more in Karachi.

The Sindh health department has announced that a man and woman have succumbed to Naegleria, a deadly brain infection, in Karachi last week.

According to the health department spokesperson, a woman, a resident of Qayyumabad, was brought to the Jinnah Hospital in critical condition, where tests found out she was suffering from Naegleria, an infection caused by brain-eating amoeba. She expired during treatment. They said her condition had deteriorated at a private hospital in the Gulshan area of Karachi.

Similarly, he said, a 45-year-old man, a resident of Surjani Town, also died of the deadly viral infection on May 26.

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