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If naegleria fowleri is in tap water whats the best way to prevent being infected in the shower?
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Rare but fatal: Naegleria fowleri is a free-living ameba (single-cell organism) that lives in fresh lake (and uncommonly tap) water. It very rarely causes disease (perhaps 300 cases worldwide), but when it does (by being sucked in thru the nose into the brain) it causes a hemorrhagic brain infection that is very often fatal. Check with a water filtration service if it can be filtered out. I don’t know
Answered 1/28/2021
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