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Can you contract a brain-eating amoeba from the vapor coming out of an essential oil diffuser? was smelling mist to see if sense came back from covid infection?
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No. Amebic encephalitis VERY rare, 2-3 cases/year in entire US. Besides, amebic cysts would be destroyed when the vapor is heated
Answered 4/13/2021
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