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  Curious why desalination would help? This is a fresh water species so that would give it more environments to live in. Unless I’m misinterpreting you
context: This amoeba only infects through the olfactory receptors in the nose, making ingestion a practically impossible method of infection, as the amoeba would have to travel through the nasopharynx all the way to the olfactory receptors for no reason and then invade. This amoeba is not specialized for pathogenicity, and is only able to infect the brain tissue. There needs to be a sufficiently warm freshwater pool that is infected, and you have to get water so far up your nose that amoeba bump into your olfactory bulb. This is why cases are extremely rare. >
  
  No aggressively snorting random lake water, got it. Thank you for this info! Makes me and my single brain cell feel better >
  
  Wtf are we supposed to do in Florida now >
  
  You know what, just keep doing what you’re doing. I heard it’s fine. >
  
  From article - "Although the KDCA has not yet identified the precise method of transmission, it has highlighted that the two main sources of infection are swimming in contaminated water and nasal rinsing with infected water." 
  From thinking about water scarcity in areas to flooding in other areas  and then to brain eating organisms lurking in it, water just continues to have a moment. Hope we're all paying attention >
  
  Mass scale water desalination becomes more critical by the day.