Plausible Cure for N. fowleri

This is a rather nasty, if rare, brain-eating thermophilic amoeba which lives in warm waters in North America (and elsewhere?). It kills by infecting the brain via the olfactory nerve after it enters through the nose. Current antimicrobial medicine treatments have a success rate of less than 2%.

Would it be plausible to suggest this disease could be treated via medically induced coma, like the rabies virus, since it is thermophilic and coma is usually induced with ice packing, from what I understand?

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