I hate to say this but...slow news day.
We've got that bug here in FL, kills a few people periodically, particularly if we've had little rain and a hot summer (which, fortunately, we didn't have this year).
Kinda like how a dozen or so people die every year from bubonic plague in the southwest, yet it goes unreported. Why does it go unreported? Because it's statistically insignificant. A few years back there was this sudden spike in the number of shark attacks - except it wasn't a spike at all, it was right in line with what numbers should have been. That didn't stop the news-wires from going nuts with talk of "Growing numbers of shark attacks this summer." Or years and years ago I remember we had some wildfires in the SW and SE plus tsunamis and an earthquake and Time did it's usual alarmist bullshit shtick about "IS NATURE STRIKING BACK?" when of course the hell it wasn't: everything that was mentioned in that very special issue was kind of standard for weather and geological patterns.
So...yeah, an "outbreak" of brain-eating amoeba is sad for the people who die from it, but it's entirely routine. Considering your odds are greater of dying in a traffic accident or train accident in Islamabad (or, I hate to say, probably greater odds of dying in a terrorist attack there), I wouldn't worry the least about this amoeba...
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