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Can you get brain eating amoeba from a dirty shower head? i'd left my apartment for a month and when i came back and took a shower i didn't notice it was caked in gunk and it shot some water up my nose.
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No: While some diseases have come from shower head, most notably ‘legionnaires’ disease’, the water coming from your shower has been cleaned and chlorinated before it comes out your shower head, so no amoeba would live in this ‘clean’ water.
Answered 8/20/2020
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