How to Avoid Brain-Eating Amoeba on Your NPS Vacation
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May 7, 2026
America's famous hot springs come with a little-discussed risk: a lethal amoeba that prefers the same warm waters humans flock to. A new study from the US Geological Survey and Montana State University found Naegleria fowleri —the so-called "brain-eating amoeba"—in more than a third of 185 samples taken from...
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