Texas Woman Dies from Brain Eating Amoeba after flushing sinuses

[PurgedVoter]

This is in a lot of news feeds. She used water from her RV that was from a Campsite. I cannot find where the campsite is listed.

https://www.sciencealert.com/texas-woman-dies-from-brain-eating-amoeba-after-flushing-sinuses

The RV water and the source were tested and no amoeba was found. Here is my take on this. It could the the area and she went swimming. It could be the amoeba disappeared from the RV water after the delay between exposure and testing.

The amoeba is dangerous, since 1962 4 out of the 164 reported cases had survivors.It is kind of rare since that is 162 out of our entire populace in the USA.

The part that bothers me is that yes, boiling water before using a neti pot is a good idea. Being able to bring the neti pot up to temperature with boiling water is also a good idea. But if the infection is from a lake or pond, then public awareness of the area is needed. It sure seems like our legal system protects businesses and municipalities before it protects the public. This sort of thing happens, but with our current makeover of US policy, I suspect the CDC's upper management doesn't consider random deaths an issue.

Considering that the right wing killed an estimated, 21,800 people by their issues with children wearing masks in school. https://www.yahoo.com/news/hiltzik-study-finds-removing-school-100000258.html

The right wing will of course scream about a cloudy tissue culture's right to life. They will of course scream about 5 athletes that are unfairly beating little girls in sports while using the wrong bath room. They will of course scream about the basement of a pizza place that doesn't have a basement. And they will scream about her emails when Signal is so secure and not an issue. But 21,800 people a lot of them children is not an issue when you might have to put a mask on, cause masks are difficult and the right wing only wears masks for parades, invasions of the capitol and of course ICE, our new secret police force that is clearly not obeying the constitution.

[Demovictory9]

1. The type of scientists that would investigate further have been laidoff

[MagickMuffin]

2. I couldn't find any info about the campsite either

Texas is a really big state and couldn’t find details of which part of the state this occurred.

Which campsite had this occur?

Why is this not being reported?

I like to visit Texas State Parks, and would like to know where this happened. We have a right to know.

[Ritabert]

4. You have to assume it could happen anywhere

Either use sterile water or don't do it at all.

[Ritabert]

3. No way is an RV water tank sterile

Heaven knows what's in most water tanks. I never liked the looks of those nasal flushing gadgets.

[mwmisses4289]

5. No info on the specific campsite,

but it appears it was texas public health region 7; and Bell County; college station is also mentioned, but that just may be the labs where the testing was done.

[mwmisses4289]

7. Also, this apparently happened in 2024,

according to this t.v. website
https://www.kristv.com/news/texas-news/cdc-confirms-texas-woman-died-from-brain-eating-amoeba-after-using-tap-water-for-nasal-rinse

[Tree Lady]

6. My hubby told me this as I was flushing my sinuses

but I buy sterile water to use for it at home, during my camping trip i bought filtered bottled water and I boil that then let it cool, I heard it should be ok if boiled. I would NEVER use tap water!!

[róisín_dubh]

9. God the instructions even say not to

But who in the hell would use water from an RV tank. 🤮

[Bluesaph]

8. I think you're supposed to use salt as well.

[canetoad]

10. I get sachets

From the pharmacist. They are salt with bicarb soda. And always boil the water.