The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has issued a weird warning: if you have to irrigate your sinuses with water for some medical reason, don't use tap water. The reason: your brains may get eaten by the Naegleria fowleri. That's the scientific name of the brain-eating amoeba, the gross thing in the picture above. It's like the brain slug in Futurama, except this one kills you instead of controlling your brain.
It's also what happened to two people in that state. They were infected and died after irrigating their sinuses with tap water.
So what's this nae... nal... er...
2DayBlog.com, Brain-Eating Amoeba in tap water kills two in Louisiana
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