How to Survive a Brain-Eating Amoeba

Naegleria fowleri, better known as the brain-eating amoeba, is a microbe that lives in warmer fresh waters almost everywhere in the world. It can infect humans via the nose when we go for a casual swim. Unfortunately, tap water can also carry these vicious, hungry microbes. Can you get infected by drinking tap water? Can it attack you in a swimming pool? How many people have survived it? 00:00 How to Survive a Brain-Eating Amoeba 01:10 Hold Your Nose 01:44 Don’t Trust Swimming Pools 02:31 Don’t Touch the Bottom 02:57 Don’t Skip the Doc 03:33 Plan Your Trip Transcript and sources: Questions or concerns? Contact us at Produced by the makers of What If. Check out our other channels: What If - Aperture: Crazy Creatures: Your Body On: Ori