• Wahots@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    It can also survive in hot water heaters, it’s why you should always use distilled water (or boiled water) for shit like neti pots, since the only attack surfaces that N.fowlri has is in the upper sinuses.

    In reality, though, this shit is exceedlying rare, particularly in cold climates. Even in the south, it is extremely rare.

    Here’s a good video on it if you are interested. Once again, it is very rare, like, less than 100 people get it in a year in the US.

    https://youtu.be/7OPg-ksxZ4Y?si=eTGQ2vnxR0JqwYh_

      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Doesn’t it have to go up your nose or something? Direct contact with an eyeball?

        They are pretty small so unless there’s billions of them in the water body it’s probably pretty unlikely that it actually gets to where it needs to be to infect someone.