{"id":159460,"date":"2023-03-03T17:25:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T23:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/florida-man-dies-from-brain-eating-amoeba-infection"},"modified":"2023-03-03T17:25:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T23:25:20","slug":"florida-man-dies-from-brain-eating-amoeba-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/florida-man-dies-from-brain-eating-amoeba-infection","title":{"rendered":"Florida Man Dies from Brain-Eating Amoeba Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/florida-man-dies-from-brain-eating-amoeba-infection2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The man may have acquired this very rare infection after rinsing his sinuses with tap water, the Florida Department of Health in Charlotte County said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>While health officials continue to investigate the cause of the <i>Naegleria fowleri<\/i> infection, they emphasized that it can\u2019t be contracted from drinking tap water.<\/p>\n<p>These infections only happen when contaminated water enters through the sinuses, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man may have acquired this very rare infection after rinsing his sinuses with tap water, the Florida Department of Health in Charlotte County said in a news release. While health officials continue to investigate the cause of the Naegleria fowleri infection, they emphasized that it can\u2019t be contracted from drinking tap water. These infections [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}