Tom Scott

The brain-eating amoebas of Kerosene Creek (2019x21)

: 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.