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How Hotter Summers Are Putting Swimmers at Risk

2014-07-17 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ABC: As families flock to pools and lakes to cool off, experts are warning about a risky consequence of climate change: waterborne disease. Just last week, a 9-year-old girl from Johnson County, Kansas, died from primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, an extremely rare but almost invariably fatal brain infection caused by the freshwater amoeba Naegleria fowleri. Its a heat-loving amoeba, said Michael Beach, associated director for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventions healthy swimming...

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