Three people have died this summer from amoebic meningoencephalitis, a condition brought on by the amoeba Naegleria fowleri.
It thrives in warm rivers and lakes during the summer, especially in the South.
One of the deaths came this month, when a 9-year-old Virginia boy died after going to a fishing day camp in Richmond.
Wow, when we were kids, we swam in lakes in rivers all the time. Never heard of anyone getting sick. Now, there isn't a single lake or river in the entire country that doesn't test postive for some kind (often MANY kinds) of poisonous heavy metals, carcinogenic chemicals, or high levels of bacteria. Yet, we apparently have no outrage over that...but we DO get angry when our hi-def TV service goes out for 20 minutes...
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