By Diana Bletter Follow
6 September 2026, 2:21 pm
During tests, “a suspicion arose that it was an #amoeba #infection,” he said
Eitan said that though the boy is in “very serious condition,” “we hope for the best.”
“We are exposed to this amoeba, and in most cases we don’t even know it,” Rotem Lapidot, director of the infectious #diseases department at Rambam, told the Ynet news outlet. “In very rare cases it manages to enter the brain and cause a serious infection.”
Lapidot said #symptoms begin with a #HighTemperature, #headaches, #vomiting, #nausea, and #NeurologicalSymptoms, usually affecting #consciousness.