There’s an amoeba out there that likes to live in relatively warm waters that proves to be one of the brain’s most formidable opponents—so formidable, in fact, that their presence in your brain is exceedingly more often than not certain doom. Fortunately, however, you don’t have to stop going to beaches anytime soon.
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