{"id":14052,"date":"2025-08-05T23:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=14052"},"modified":"2025-08-05T23:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:00:52","slug":"a-deadly-brain-eating-amoeba-is-spreading-through-u-s-tap-water-naegleria-fowleri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=14052","title":{"rendered":"A Deadly Brain-Eating Amoeba Is Spreading Through U.S. Tap Water\u2014Naegleria Fowleri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naegleria fowleri: Deadly Brain-Eating Amoeba Linked to Tap Water Use. Naegleria fowleri is a free-living amoeba found in warm freshwater environments\u2014lakes, rivers, hot springs, and, more rarely, domestic tap or RV water systems. It causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a rare but nearly always fatal brain infection.<\/p>\n<p>New Risk Route: Nasal Irrigation. Previously, most cases were linked to swimming in warm lakes or rivers. However, recent evidence highlights nasal rinsing with non-sterile tap water (e.g., using a neti pot) as another risk\u2014especially in RVs.<br \/>\nIn 2025, a healthy 71-year-old woman in Texas died after using RV tap water for nasal irrigation<\/p>\n<p>Though the amoeba wasn\u2019t isolated due to delayed testing, the CDC concluded the water was likely contaminated. Why This Matters. Tap water\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naegleria fowleri: Deadly Brain-Eating Amoeba Linked to Tap Water Use. Naegleria fowleri is a free-living amoeba found in warm freshwater environments\u2014lakes, rivers, hot springs, and, more rarely,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14056,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14052\/revisions\/14056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}