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Brain-eating amoeba turns up in five western national parks

Ellsworth Toohey
May 07, 2026
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Lake Mead near Hoover Dam in Nevada (Supavadee butradee/shutterstock.com)

Naegleria fowleri — the single-celled organism that causes a brain infection with a 98% fatality rate — has been showing up in warm waters at Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Olympic, Lake Mead, and Newberry National Volcanic Monument, according to a SFGATE report by Sam Hill.

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