OF RAIN AND THE HEAT IS HERE TO STAY. ALL RIGHT. LET’S SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING OUT ON THE
ANCHOR DESK. HERE’S JEN
STANDING BY.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: THIS
MORNING, WE’RE TAKING A CLOSER
LOOK AT BRAIN EATING AMOEBA.
FLORIDA HAS THE HIGHEST RATE
OF INFECTION. AND WHILE IT IS
RARE, THIS TIME OF YEAR
SPECIFICALLY PRESENTS THE
HIGHEST RISK OF INFECTION
BECAUSE THE AMOEBA LIVES IN
WARM WATER FOUND OFTEN IN
LAKES AND RIVERS. DOCTOR
MOBEEN RATHORE IS A PEDIATRIC
INFECTIOUS DISEASE DOCTOR WITH
U.S. HEALTH AND WOLFSON
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL AND JOINS
US VIA ZOOM THIS MORNING. GOOD
MORNING, DOC. GOOD MORNING. SO
WOULD YOU EXPLAIN HOW THIS
BACTERIA GETS INTO THE BODY?
>> AND THIS ACTUALLY LIVES IN
FRESH. OTHER BODIES OF WATER
AND AND USUALLY DIES IN. BUT
STREAMS AND BODIES OF THE
AUDIT RISK OF GETTING THIS EVE
AND I LIVES IN THE SEDIMENT
OUT OF THE HOUSE FLOOR OFF THE
LAKES AND THE BODIES OF WATER.
SO ANYTHING THAT YOU WERE
DISTURBED THAT ARE BIG AND THE
SENTIMENT CAN ALSO INCREASE
THE RISK OF INFECTION WITH
THIS. I AND IS THIS SOMETHING
THAT YOU CAN GET BY INGESTING
WATER OR IS IT SPECIFIC INTO
HOW IT GETS INTO THE BODY?
>> I THINK THE WAY GETS INTO
BODY THROUGH THE NOSE. AND SO
THAT’S MY SOMEBODY IS DIVING
INTO THE AND THAT WATER IS
INFESTED WITH THIS TO BE A YOU
KNOW, THEY THEY HIT THE ROAD,
THE THE FLOOR OF THE BODY OF
WATER, IF YOU WILL, AND TO
STIR UP THE SEDIMENT, IT COULD
GET TO AND GET PART OF THE
WAR. THERE PEOPLE RUNS FOR
BUSH AN AND YOU CAN GET TO GET
A FIRM THAT ALSO THE
SPECIFICALLY THE GUY. MEAN, I
GUESS, TO THE NOSE AND OUT TO
THE BALL ON GREEN THAN THOSE
IN THE BRAIN. IT GETS INTO THE
BRAIN. AND AND I KNOW YOU
MENTIONED FRESHWATER. I JUST
WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR SINCE SO
MANY PEOPLE FLOCK TO OUR
BEACHES IS SOMETHING THAT
SOMEONE HAS TO WORRY ABOUT IN
THE OCEAN.
>> NOT IN THE OCEAN. THIS IS
NOT I MEAN, SECTION YOU CAN
GET FROM THE OCEAN. ON THEM A
NICE HEART HARBOR WATERS.
COULD SOON RISE AS HIGH AS AN
15 FOR FRIDAY NIGHT. THE
USUALLY OUR BEACHES ARE SAFE
TIME TO GET AREA. AND WHAT
ABOUT THE SAINT JOHNS RIVER?
I’VE SEEN JON SHOULD GENERALLY
BE SEAT, YOU SAY, BUT PARTIAL
FOOD. AND THAT’S ONE OF THE
LITTLE OUT COMMISSION. LET’S
WITHIN MAYBE STANDING WATER.
ALL THAT MAY BE BRACKISH
PERTAINS TO DO IT. BUT IN I
DON’T KNOW IF I WANT TO
COMMEND PEOPLE TO STREAM IN
SAINT JOHNS BUT TO THE CENTER
TO THE FRESH MARKET MAKES IN
STANDING WATER. THAT WOULD BE
THE HIGHEST RISK. AND IS THERE
SOMETHING THAT CAN BE DONE TO
PREVENT IT? PART OF ONE CAN DO
TO PREVENT OTHER THAN MAKING
SURE IF YOU ARE IN A SWIMMING
POOL THIS WITH HIS REGIMENT
GAME. AND THEN YOU CAN YOU
KNOW, ONE DIRECTIVE MAY IS TO
USE AN I THINK IF YOU WANT TO
BE DIVING IN THE BODIES OF
FRESH WATER, JUST AN OSCAR OR,
YOU KNOW YOU YOU’RE PART OF
AND IT MAY NOT PREVENT IT
COMPLETELY, BUT IT’S 71
DEGREES. THE OPPORTUNITY FOR
THE WATER GET IN, DO A BRAIN
TO YOUR NOSE. SO THAT’S
SOMETHING YOU CAN DO DOES NOT
GET UP THERE TO PROTECT YOU OR
CERTAINLY WOULD THE CHANCE OF
WHAT WE’RE GETTING INTO YOUR
NOSE INTO THAT, RATE. AND
GIVEN THAT MOST OF THE CASES,
WE SEE OUR CHILDREN BECAUSE
THEY’RE MORE APT TO BE
SPENDING. A LOT KEEP THAT IN
MIND FOR OUR VIEWERS.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: WHAT ARE THE
WARNING SIGNS, DOCTOR,
RATHORE? BECAUSE IT’S MY
UNDERSTANDING IF NOT CAUGHT
EARLY. THIS IS NEARLY ALWAYS
FATAL.
>> YEAH, THAT’S THE CHALLENGES
THAT MAN JUST BE FEVER OR HAD
HE KIDS GET BACK BUT LET HER
ON THAT MAY BE. BUT CHENEY AND
SEN PEOPLE MAY BE BALANCE
CHANGES NEXT. MAYBE STU, MORE
HEADACHES. YOU KNOW SOMETHING
WHICH STATE AND THEN IT TO THE
PROGRESS TO AND SUPPLIED IS
WHEN YOU GO INTO A COMA AND
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT THE
THE FOR THE TREATMENT FOR THIS
IS NOT EFFECTIVE. TO HONEST
WITH THE THE MOST OF THE MOST
OF THE PEOPLE WHO GET THIS
PASSED AWAY FOR SOME REASON WE
DON’T REALLY HAVE ANY
TREATMENT FOR THERE’S A DRIVE
ON MISTER FOSSETT, WHICH IS
STOP IT WHEN IT GOES TO THE
CDC. BUT AGAIN, MOST OF FOR IS
BECAUSE AS YOU CAN IMAGINE
BEYOND JUST LOOKS LIKE A
BOTTOM INFECTION. AND THEN
ONCE IT RECOGNIZED, IT’S IT’S
LITTLE BIT LATE AND THERE’S
NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT
EVERYBODY WAS HEADED MOST OF
OUR MONEY. THAT’S PART OF WHAT
COURT TIME ME BECAUSE I’VE
BEEN IN THAT SO I THINK IT’S
HARD A COUPLE OF CASES OFF
SURVIVAL ARE WITH THIS
INFECTION, BUT BUT THIS IS A
RED INFECTION OR TAKE UP TO
THE UNITED STATES. ONLY 31
CASES WE’RE SEEING SO MUCH THE
PART OF THE UNITED STATES
SEEMS TO THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF
CASES FROM OUR HIGH AND
BENEFITS IN FLORIDA DOES HAVE
THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF WITH AN
INFECTION. AND I THINK IN THE
WARM TEMPERATURES ONE PART OF
YEAR, JULY SEPTEMBER OF THIS
BECAUSE THE HIGHEST.