Medical Mysteries

Brain-Eating Amoeba

11.17.2020 - By Spotify StudiosPlay

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In July 2013, a 12-year-old girl from Arkansas was diagnosed with a rare and deadly brain-eating amoeba known as Naegleria fowleri. Her exposure came from a local water park, but brain-eating amoebas are lurking everywhere — including our own faucets.

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