Brain-eating amoeba season peaks: Safety tips for swimmers

Brain-eating amoeba infections are rare but typically fatal once symptoms appear, with high mortality rates among infected individuals.

Each summer, as freshwater warms across the country, an ancient microscopic organism called Naegleria fowleri quietly multiplies in lakes, hot springs, and swimming holes, posing a rare but almost always fatal threat to those who swim among it. The amoeba does not harm through drinking but through the nose — a single dive in the wrong water at the wrong temperature can set in motion an infection that medicine struggles to stop. Public health agencies issue their seasonal warnings not out of alarm, but out of respect for the asymmetry between a simple precaution and an irreversible consequence.

Brain-eating amoeba season peaks: Safety tips for swimmers

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