Tom Scott: Things You Might Not Know

The Brain-Eating Amoebas of Kerosene Creek (2019x7)

Air date: May 06, 2019

Kerosene Creek is a natural hot spring near Rotorua, on the North Island of New Zealand. And there have been official warnings for years: don't put your head under water. It turns out that "brain-eating amoebas", naegleria fowleri, are a real, if rare, thing.