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I live in the uk and am worried about brain eating ameobas should i or not i'd the water clean (hearing about the cases in texas has got me very worried about it due to health anxiety?
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Safe in the UK: That's the curse of health anxiety. We in the US have about 3.3 of these brain-eating cases per year for our 330 million population, which means 1 per 100 million population. You only have 67 million people in the UK, so no worries. Detrimental effects of health anxiety (not enough room to list them here) will get you before an amoeba will. Also, the US cases are essentially all in the South.
Answered 10/2/2020
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