Brain-eating amoeba turns up in five western national parks

Naegleria fowleri — the single-celled organism that causes a brain infection with a 98% fatality rate — has been showing up in warm waters at Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Olympic, Lake Mead, and Newberry National Volcanic Monument, according to a SFGATE report by Sam Hill. — Read the rest The post Brain-eating amoeba turns up in five western national parks appeared first on Boing Boing.