Talk:Balamuthia mandrillaris

Is the death significant?
Is the fire fighter death significant? If so, when should deaths be listed with diseases? Wikipedia can't list all people of dubious importance (note: I consider myself of dubious importance as well) who died on each disease page. JPINFV (talk) 02:00, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

While the principle of your argument is sound, in this case, I believe an exception is warranted. Since this disease is so rare and infrequently referred to in medical literature, the firefighter's case may provide the reader with useful information that might otherwise be difficult to find. --Asymptote (talk) 14:33, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Deaths related to organ transplantation
The paragraph takes liberties from facts. Balamuthia related encephalitis was reported on dec 14th by a individual physician and not UM medical center. The individuals that eventually suffered from the disease were a woman and man, woman age approx. 30 died and the man aged approx 25-28 survived with sequelae. I plan to change the whole paragraph within the next few days. Please let me know if anyone disagrees. thanks. Kc27 (talk) 15:26, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

The transplantation paragraph desperately needs citations from MMWR.174.25.13.95 (talk) 15:22, 20 May 2015 (UTC)