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“The European Parliament is a bit like The Blob,” she said, referring to the 1958 film about a massive amoeba that threatens to destroy the world.

It was decades after decades of trying to contain something as organic as music, like forcing an amoeba to hold a shape.

An Indian teenager is now among a handful of people in the world to survive a rare brain-eating amoeba, partly due to his father coming across a public awareness campaign on social media.

Rather, these events appear to be common across diverse organisms, from single-celled amoebas to complex multicellular animals.

Naegleriaviruses are taken up mistakenly as a food source but destroy their amoeba hosts within just few hours.