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  so grateful for intelligent, educated and knowledgable people who can, in times like these, defuse my absolute panic caused by this type of irresponsible sensational garbage news. Thank you so much for this.
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.