A 2-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba infection this week, according to the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health and a Facebook post from the child’s mother.
A 2-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba infection this week, according to the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health and a Facebook post from the child’s mother.
Welp, if I had any desire to go to a hot spring, I sure don’t now.
Any fresh water body to be honest. There’s just a ton more small dangerous things that can live in fresh water vs salt water.
For Naegleria fowleri in particular, there have been enough infections from tap water, but as it prefers warm water, it’s more common in swimming pools and bathing lakes.