Prayers up.
Another reason to leave Florida off my bucket list
Chlorinated pools OK
Lakes and ponds NG especially in warm climates like Fl.
Kali Hardig just survived...3rd survivor out of 150 since the 1950s in Little Rock, AR....she is writing her own name....this is unprecidented....other 2 “survivors” basicially vegetables.
I swam in southern lakes that were pretty stagnant. It is a wonder that I ever survived childhood.
A brother of a friend died from this same thing. He was 22, knee boarding in Orlando. He was sick the next day, died four days after knee boarding. The best defense is a cheap, old fashioned clip style nose plug to keep the water out.
Prayers for the young man.
The ailment is most often contracted by diving or swimming underwater in a drainage canal or polluted lake in the summer. Drowning is the far greater risk, but a child slowly dying in an ICU from a rare disease naturally attracts more public interest.
But seriously, poor kid.