Remember on Tuesday, when we learned that nine-year-old Virginia boy died after a “brain-eating amoeba” entered his body? Well, now we get word of two other deaths around the country thanks to said organism, including a Louisiana man who contracted the parasite through his drinking water.
A deadly brain-eating amoeba killed a man in his early 20s – the third death linked to the rare parasite this summer, health official said. The Louisiana man, who was not identified, died in June after he caught the parasite while rinsing his sinuses with tap water using a neti pot, state health official found. Health investigators found the amoeba in home’s water system but said the microscopic critter was confined to the house and not in city water sample, the Associated Press reported.
Well, our idea was simply to avoid all bodies of freshwater from here on out, but now that the bug is on the move, I guess we’ll just sit around and wait for the organism to, as the Center for Disease Control puts it, “burrow into our skulls.”