In recent years, special wash-down areas have been built in marinas to reduce the environmental problems caused by boat ...

In recent years, special wash-down areas have been built in marinas to reduce the environmental problems caused by boat ...

A woman in Texas has died after contracting a fatal brain amoeba from contaminated water. The patient, 71, had used a nasal irrigation device filled with unboiled tap water from an RV’s water ...

US Woman Dies From Brain-Eating Amoeba After Using Tap Water For Nasal Rinse The woman began showing symptoms such as fever, headache, and confusion within four days of using the nasal rinse.

How rare is brain-eating amoeba infection? According to the CDC, about 10 people a year in the U.S. are diagnosed with the amoeba, but most die. About 164 infections were reported from 1962 to 2023.

The power of wastewater for CDR comes from the carbonate chemistry occurring below the water’s surface. When CO 2 dissolves in any body of water, the gas reacts to form carbonic acid; the weak ...

Source: Rodriguez Nava G. Abstract 231. Presented at: SHEA Spring 2025; April 27-30, 2025; Orlando.

Wastewater treatment plants in the US may discharge enough “forever chemicals” to raise concentrations in drinking water above the safe limit for millions of people By James Dinneen 6 January 2025 ...

The vampyrellid amoeba Strigomyxa ruptor gen. et sp. nov. and its remarkable strategy to acquire algal cell contents. Ecology and Evolution. Vol. 14, August 2024, e70191. doi: 10.1002/ece3.70191.

Wastewater surveillance for both prevalent and emerging pathogens can strengthen the nation’s infectious disease surveillance system. A new National Academies report offers recommendations to ...

A new, unusual giant virus has been discovered at a wastewater treatment plant near Vienna. The single-celled organism Naegleria fowleri ranks among the deadliest human parasites. Matthias Horn and ...

Within hours, a structure known as a virus factory forms inside the amoeba cell, replicating viral genetic material outside the nucleus and assembling hundreds of new virus particles.