Natural disasters such as hurricanes leave behind warm water that can be riddled with diseases and infections for people left to deal with the aftermath of the storm.
One of these infections could be brain-eating amoebas that are known to thrive in warm pools in the southeastern parts of the United States.
The crippling organisms are rare, but they enter through the nasal passages and into the brain. Continue reading “Brain-eating amoeba could infest Florida after Hurricane Irma”