How to Survive a Brain-Eating Amoeba

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Naegleria fowleri, better known as the brain-eating amoeba, is a microbe that lives in warmer fresh waters almost everywhere in the world. It can infect humans via the nose when we go for a casual swim. Unfortunately, tap water can also carry these vicious, hungry microbes. Can you get infected by drinking tap water? Can it attack you in a swimming pool? How many people have survived it?

00:00 How to Survive a Brain-Eating Amoeba
01:10 Hold Your Nose
01:44 Don’t Trust Swimming Pools
02:31 Don’t Touch the Bottom
02:57 Don’t Skip the Doc
03:33 Plan Your Trip

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