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Don’t use unsterilized tap water to rinse your sinuses. It may carry brain-eating amoebas

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Don’t use unsterilized tap water to rinse your sinuses. It may carry brain-eating amoebas

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Public [email protected] • 11 months ago

Two new studies document rare cases in which people who rinsed sinuses with unsterilized tap got infected with brain-eating amoebas.

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3•11 months ago
Use distilled - someone else already did the boiling and cooling.

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