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"textContent": "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 \n\nThe post Brain-eating amoeba turns up in five western national parks appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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