Health authorities say that a Charlotte County man became ill after using unfiltered tap water in a Neti pot. WBBH’s Samantha Serbin reports.
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Florida man contracts brain-eating amoeba through tap water
#Florida #NBCNews
Don’t breathe water
It’s always the Florida man, I hate it here and it’s like 99% Ohio down here. Hope it don’t happen to anybody else, especially since it’s in the news 😕
The instructions on the box says to use distilled water or double boiled water. There is a warning not to use tap water.
Florida Tap water contains brain eating ameba…
Health department: ” common misperception is can I drink with the water , can I cook with the water, can I bathe with the water??? and the answer is YES”
Me: “Ok you drink it then…”
It says on the box to use filtered or bottled water
Now this is news
This really speaks to the deterration of the US water supply and utilities. Never forget flint Michigan
Don’t do coke
That nasty looking sink did it
Drink it
*_This ad er “news” is brought to you by your local bottled water company_*
And now we have starving brain amoebas. Good job, Florida Man.
You can bathe in it? Like a shower? Isn’t that water forcefully hitting your face and nose? How is that different than jumping into lakes…
“Florida Man”? *click*! 🤭
The instructions say to use distilled water i always boil mine just incase.
That’s terrifying.
This is why sinus rinse products come with directions that clearly state: “do not use tap water.”
You mean he didn’t use sterilized water . Chronic sinusitis is brutal. I do have questions about Florida.
Lol glad I drink bottles of eater I can’t remember the last time I drunk tape water
1:29 why does this shot bother me so much
Couldn’t you boil the water to make it safer?
Why don’t put money to having clean tap water and not sending money to Ukraine
DANM I been drinking faucet water all my life.. I came alright 😈.. I still drank it. Everyone in this world wants water bottles.lol when the world ends, there will be no such thing. Water IS WATER.
DeSantis is too busy banning books
This sounds like the preface to a long, difficult and questionable lawsuit.
The more you know, the better you can protect yourself.
So the water treatment failed….
Poor man. I hope he’s ok 😭
No he’s not
high mortality rate. that ameba kills like 95% or more.
News said he died yesterday.
Rare but i see them quite alot on the news?, naybe they should do more study to determine whether its truly rare or not wtf
In the 80’s, I grew up swimming in lake water. We would drink from water hoses in the summer. My parents would fill up one of those plastic kids pools with water. We had the slip and slide. Water was safe. This is so sad……years ago, when the neti pot first came out…I had bought one in 2006….I used tap water. I don’t recall seeing a warning about amoebas in the water. Now…this is so scary.
5 people out of 331 million encounter this problem. This is nothing to be scared of, if you want something to be scared of you area thousand times more likely to die in a car crash or commit suicide. But it’s better to accept that life is not about being safe and we all are headed towards death so be conscious and relax stop watching/reading news stories that feed on your cortisol addiction and enjoy.
@Zack Williams I really really really needed too hear this. I was freaking out 😔 thank u
@Zack Williams yes it is rare..however, the rate is rising due to a changing climate (warmer waters). It can be avoided by simply keeping water from entering the nose, the only way it can enter and cause harm.
Same here, I don’t recall seeing that warning when I used it years ago.
Mine says on the box to not use tap water. Did this person not read?
Drink the water and bath with it? I’m scared now!
NGL When I first saw this video it freaked me tf out but when I saw it was from using a neti pot I calmed down a bit. I have a huge phobia of getting this amoeba from drinking water (really specific I know) but it really freaks me out. I saw a comment saying that this is from floridas dirty water but I remember a few years ago I think this happened to someone else (I’m not sure where) but I don’t think it was from the water it was just unlucky. Just don’t put water in your nose and be safe yall.
Can’t get it from drinking, only up the nose..just keep water out of your nose when swimming in any freshwater.
Well this is scary.
This was on a episode on a thousand ways to die. They said in the show to NEVER use tap water in a Neti pot because of this very reason
Well, JESUS CHRIST. are you sure? oh my god
This is why you boiled the water from tap (then let it cool down to room temperature) if you’re ever going to use it for Neti Pot. If anything distilled water.
Can you bathe in the water didn’t somebody contract it that way
YES but you must wear nose plugs
Turn him to ashes
This is why I DO NOT drink tap water
I don’t either but not bc of this, this can’t affect you unless it gets up your nose.
Tragic. My Neti Pot instructions state use distilled water.
great, now i lost appetite eating this brain
Common sense is not Common practice. This is natural selection at its finest
This might explain a lot, like DeSantis and Mar-a-lago.
A brain eating amoeba in Florida? Did it starve?
How about filter the water better … ya know just a thought
These are the topics that DeSantis and governors all over the country should focus on but instead they are too focused on partisan politics and arguing with each other!
Yes, the number one priority should be a clean safe environment and safe foods but instead they waste time on the dumbest sh*t and ignore the important things.
Really?….sounds more like a misuse of another gimmick product….poor person catching that disease though….😮
In America? This happened? FLORIDA, YOU GOTTA START CHOOSING YOUR GOVERNMENT WISELY. Ron DeSantis is busy with his CULTURE WAR WITH YOUR TAX MONEY to take care of threats like these.
Just like the Ohio Republican government IN BED with the TRAIN DERAILMENT corporate executives, Ron DeSantis didn’t care to prevent this from happening in the first place. They ignored it and until it kills people, Republicans will stop counting their corporate dollars momentarily.
Boil your water!
@1:40 This guy is saying it’s OK to drink sink tap water and to wash your vegetagles. So amoeba only attacks you through your nose/spinal fluid ?
Yes correct..however I would argue the safety of tap water in general in a lot of places.
😳😳😳😳
No that’s what they’re blaming it on I wonder if it wasn’t from one of their swabs are they ran the Q-tip up your nose
dont drink tap, drink bottled.
Because Florida….
Too bad people don’t read and follow instructions. I know it says to only use distilled water or to boil your water to purify it.
Drink and bathe in it the asnwer is yes .until more ppl get it then the answer is no
Lol @ Florida. Wtf goes in in your heads? You have so many companies that are just dumping waste, not storing it properly, nor being held accountable if anyone gets sick. That’s what you vote for, helping corporations to make more money and hurt you. Considering Florida has the oldest population too, doubtful you’re bodies can handle as much as a young healthy person, so you’re even more at risk. Yet here you are…
This is why I drink bottled water only, even at restaurants.
I hope His family sues!! Somebody didn’t do their job right!!
Thankfully, we don’t have that parasite in Colorado water. Although it’s not impossible for it to suddenly show up one day in the future. I heard it’s something to due with the elevation here that makes it hard for them to thrive and reproduce.
It’s water temp. It is showing up in places father north due to warming waters.
Oh, Florida man.
I’ve really missed all these “man in Florida” stories.
Misleading title. Y’all trying to make it look like the water is deadly to drink, when in fact it was caused by putting the water up his nose via netty pot. You’re not supposed to use tap water for a netty pot. Just dumb.
Ahh another thing to add to the Florida man que
May he rest in perfect peace! 🕊️🏳️
Ron Desatin….what are your thoughts? Oh yeah, too busy debunking black history.
Weeeeellllll another conspiracy proven true!!!!!!
Florduhs a hard NO for me dog
Here I’m am doing drugs n ppl dying over water 🤷🏽
but we don’t wanna scare you, bruh the fact that if i get a drop of water and drop dead, i ain’t gonna boil shower water 1:22
40yrs. ago, we drank out of the garden hose that stayed outside year round….🥴🥴😂🤣
Well this explains a lot about Floriduh
I never drink water from a tap unless I use Chlorine Dioxide in my water!
Florida “don’t hate me because I’m beautiful”
As if it was needed, another reason to not live in FL. Geeze.
Trippy how you can do everything else with the tap water though ..interesting
Florida is gross
Boil your neti pot water y’all 😭
Get the espring
Thanks DeSantis
Now we know what is wrong with those Republicans!
There seems to be more of these cases even if they down play it
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FRIGHTENING AND SO SAD AND SHOULD OF NEVER HAPPENED AND PROVES THE TAP WATER ISNT SAFE SO SOMEONE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DEATH!!!
I pray he survives. Last year a girl survived it
Destined water is best..
Fox News finally made it into the water…
Sounds crazy, I’m sure, but I’d be eating minced garlic at this point! Garlics a killer! It might not destroy it, but then again, it might!
Florida tap water always smelled like chlorine!
Don’t do it. That is bad hygiene.
Don’t not drink tap water straight, boil first always, and filter!
This reveals something underlying that is bad, don’t drink tap water straight, that is bad practice
The gulf is full of oil corporations, but hey, technology, advancement, etc.
Gotta love global warming incubating a pool of brain-eating amoebas and the people stil ignorant about the scientific truth of it.
If you can help it it’s best not to drink any tap water anymore, even bottled water is suspicious a lot of times. All the pollution and chemicals being used in the world are finally doubling back on us
He was probably jabbed
My gosh can we use Florida water to take a shower? 😬😬😬😬
Florida 🤢🤮
I’m from the UK, first time hearing about this, I rinse my nose twice a day with tap water.