Two people in Louisiana died last year from a fatal infection from brain-eating amoeba 
called N. fowleri. The infection was contracted by using neti pots filled with tap water to clean their sinuses. This amoeba travels up the nasal cavity and into the brain, and the symptoms include headache, fever, stiff neck, loss of appetite, vomiting, confusion, seizures, coma and death. With a fatality rate of 99%, this is seriously a horrific infection.
But don’t just shut off your faucets and stopped showering or drinking water, even though the N. fowleri is scary, it is only found to enter the through the nose. Boiling, filtering, distilling and consuming the water would kill the amoeba. And general things like drinking water, bathing and showering would not contract the infection.
Could global warming be a factor in the spread of the N. fowleri? Since it is a warm-water amoeba found primarily in Southern states, the spread of it to some Northern states suggested that the water is getting warmer.
For the full article published on Fox News on August 23rd, click here.
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