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South Korea confirms first case of brain-eating amoeba Negleria Fowler It enters the body through the nose, migrates to the brain and infects it, causing primary amoebic meningoencephalitis. The patient died on 21 December after onset of symptoms (among them headaches, fever, vomiting, speech dysfunction). On December 10, he returned from Thailand. Symptoms develop quickly and the infection is fatal.