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Public Health@mander.xyz · 8 months ago

Don’t use unsterilized tap water to rinse your sinuses. It may carry brain-eating amoebas

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Don’t use unsterilized tap water to rinse your sinuses. It may carry brain-eating amoebas

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to

Public Health@mander.xyz · 8 months ago

Two new studies document rare cases in which people who rinsed sinuses with unsterilized tap got infected with brain-eating amoebas.

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