Posted on 09/20/2013 5:48:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A deadly brain amoeba that’s killed two boys this year has been found in a U.S. drinking water supply system for the first time, officials said Monday -- in a New Orleans-area system.
The Naegleria fowleri parasite killed a 4-year-old Mississippi boy who likely got it playing on a back yard Slip 'N Slide, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials say. Tests show it’s present throughout the water supply system in St. Bernard Parish, directly southeast of New Orleans.
“We have never seen Naegleria colonizing a treated water supply before,” said Dr. Michael Beach, head of water safety for the CDC. “From a U.S. perspective this is a unique situation.”
N. fowleri is a heat-loving amoeba that’s usually harmless, unless it gets up someone’s nose. It’s not entirely clear how or why, but in rare instances it can attach to one of the nerves that takes smell signals to the brain. There, the amoeba reproduces and the brain swelling and infection that follows is almost always deadly.
It killed a Miami-area boy last month -- 12-year-old Zachary Reyna -- and a 12-year-old Arkansas girl, Kali Hardig, is recovering slowly after an unusual experimental treatment.
N. fowleri is usually found in warm, fresh waters all over the world. It’s been seen in hot springs and swimming holes, freshwater lakes and even in neti pots used to clean out sinuses. Incomplete disinfection probably allowed it to thrive in St. Bernard, which has its own independent water system, Beach says.....
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I think you mean Ozone, it’s a damn good oxidizer for organics.
“......brain amoeba infects US tap water”.....
So that’s whats wrong with odumbo and biden, they’re drinking the wrong Kool-aid.
Ozone is probably too much of a good thing.
“Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) can be employed whereby water contaminants are oxidized by one or more of four different precursors. These AOPs react with water to produce powerful oxidants such as hydroxyl radical (OH·), singlet oxygen (O) and molecular oxygen (O2).”
Ozone (O3) can harm lung function and irritate the respiratory system, as well as exacerbate asthma, bronchitis, heart attack, and other cardiopulmonary problems.
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