The 200,000 residents of Charlotte County, Florida are being advised to use tap water cautiously and avoid it from entering their noses after a man died from a brain-eating amoeba.

You should never use water straight from the tap in your neti pot. “It’s important to use either distilled water or tap water that has been previously boiled,” Orlandi says.

You can unsubscribe at any time. More info A 71 year old woman from Texas tragically lost her life to a brain-eating infection, believed to have been contracted from tap water.

Tap water should be boiled for at least one minute and cooled before using. The man who died late last month had contracted Naegleria fowleri, an extremely rare amoeba can destroy the human brain ...

In essence, tapping is “a hodgepodge of interventions, some of which are, I’m sure, quite effective,” said David F. Tolin, the director of the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Institute of ...

A woman in Texas died from a brain-eating infection she is believed to have contracted from tap water. The unnamed female, aged 71, was killed by the amoeba - a single-celled organism last year ...