eli5: Why can’t our bodies defend against amoeba?

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I’ve heard of brain-eating amoeba which is some scary shit.

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In general our bodies can defend against amoeba, but the brain-eating one works a bit differently: in layman’s terms, it’s not the amoeba actually doing the damage, but your own immune system, in trying to fight it more and more aggressively, ends up corroding your brains

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