{"id":93473,"date":"2019-07-11T22:02:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T05:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/brain-eating-amoeba-found-in-louisiana-drinking-water-again"},"modified":"2019-07-11T22:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T05:02:45","slug":"brain-eating-amoeba-found-in-louisiana-drinking-water-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/brain-eating-amoeba-found-in-louisiana-drinking-water-again","title":{"rendered":"Brain-eating amoeba found in Louisiana drinking water again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-eating-amoeba-found-in-louisiana-drinking-water-again.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are found in many freshwater lakes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A potentially deadly brain-eating amoeba has been detected in a Louisiana neighborhood\u2019s drinking water \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/06\/30\/potentially-deadly-amoeba-found-in-louisiana-water-system\/\">third time the terrifying discovery has been made<\/a> in the same parish since 2015, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Naegleria fowleri, which causes fatal brain swelling and tissue destruction, was found over the weekend in Terrebonne Parish, deep in the Louisiana bayou about an hour south of New Orleans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/article\/news\/local\/lafourche-terrebonne\/brain-eating-amoeba-found-in-terrebonne-parish-water\/289-563334277\">WWL-TV reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are found in many freshwater lakes. A potentially deadly brain-eating amoeba has been detected in a Louisiana neighborhood\u2019s drinking water \u2014 the third time the terrifying discovery has been made in the same parish since 2015, reports said. Naegleria fowleri, which causes fatal brain swelling and tissue destruction, was found over the weekend in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93473","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\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}