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Don't Go In The Water
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It is not among the amenities advertised at a Texas "surf resort" -- one of those artificial wave pools where you can surf inland -- that there might be brain-eating amoebae in the water, but that's what they're testing for after one guest died after being infected with Naegleria fowleri, the amoeba that lives in lakes and ponds and can go up your nose and destroy your brain. Incidentally, you can get it from tap water, too, and people have gotten it by using infected tap water in a nasal douche and one person got it through infected tap water used on a backyard water toy, so... (Waco Tribune-Herald)
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