India, Sept. 18 -- So far, 19 people have died in Kerala due to Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis in 2025. However, Kerala's health minister Veena George has said there has been no cluster outbreak of the condition this year like last year.

In 2024, George said there were clusters of the disease linked to a common water source. This year so far, she confirmed that 69 PAM cases have been detected, with 19 deaths reported.

"Not clusters, single cases...we did have clusters, but not in 2025... but back in 2024, there was a cluster there because the same water source was used...here, there is no cluster, but we have cases, we have a total number of 69 cases..." she told news agency ANI.

According to the Kerala government's health departm...