CDC report reveals contaminated RV water source of brain-eating amoeba in recent death

As someone who regularly uses nasal irrigation — but, of course, only with bottled or distilled water — I read the most recent CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) with extreme interest. The MMWR's latest "Notes from the Field," dated May 29, 2025, describes the fatal case of a healthy 71-year-old woman who died in Texas last year from primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a rare but often fatal brain infection caused by Naegleria fowleri. — Read the rest

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