CDC at Work: On Call 24/7 for Naegleria fowleri Infections, the Brain-eating Ameba
From CDC Connects, CDC’s Employee Intranet (12/17/2015)

Jennifer Cope and her colleagues in the Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch know more about Naegleria fowleri, the free-living ameba that causes PAM, than anyone else in the world.
Every summer as the weather heats up, Jennifer Cope, MD, MPH, gets ready for calls from doctors and health departments across the country. They’re looking for answers about a rare and deadly disease known as PAM (primary amebic meningoencephalitis) and a drug to help treat PAM that is available through CDC and nowhere else in the United States.
Cope and her colleagues in the Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch (WDPB) of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) know more about Naegleria fowleri, the free-living ameba that causes PAM, than anyone else in the world. And they’re on a mission to make a difference with that knowledge since they serve as frontline resources for physicians and health departments around the country.
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