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Warming waters could expand brain-eating amoeba risk - WRAL

Published by WRAL.com By Liz McLaughlin, WRAL Climate Change Reporter · 29 August 2026 at 00:07
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Warming waters could expand brain-eating amoeba risk - WRAL
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A North Carolina teenager is critically ill with the rare infection as scientists study how rising temperatures could change where and when the amoeba thrives.

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