Brain-Eating Amoeba Testing

This is a reprehensible story because brain-eating amoebas in the water supply have cost lives, especially the lives of children.

Utility Workers Indicted Over Brain-Eating Amoeba Testing - ABC News

If the workers really didn't test the water and lied about it, they should go to jail if proven.  Allowing contaminated water into the public water supply is atrocious.

When we can't trust the water supply, that increases the problem of public trust.

This problem seems to require on-going testing of local water supplies.

If the contaminated water came out of a hose or public water supply, it needs to be investigated.  If the contaminated water was in a natural swimming hole, that waters needs to be off-limits to the public.

Remember the children who have died from similar brain-eating amoebas.

4-year-old dies from brain-eating amoeba in Louisiana - CBS

Florida boy, 12, dies from brain-eating parasite - CNN

9-year-old girl dies from brain-eating amoeba in water - CNN

Those patients who have been affected by amoebas eating the cornea in their eyes.

7-year-old Arkansas boy battling eye amoeba - KATV

Amoeba Infection Threatens Woman's Sight After She Used Tap Water To Store Contact Lenses - Huffington Post

Millions of contact lens wearers are at risk of eye-devouring amoeba that can turn them blind - Daily Mail

And the survivors... this girl had less than one percent chance of survival....she's alive today.

How Kali survived a brain-eating amoeba - USA Today

Overall, more testing needs to be done of our water supply.