Saturday, September 29, 2007

Global warming boon for brain-eating amoeba

Sensational headline — one with some basis in fact:"This is definitely something we need to track," said Michael Beach, a specialist in recreational waterborne illnesses for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."This is a heat-loving amoeba. As water temperatures go up, it does better," Beach said. "In future decades, as temperatures rise, we'd expect to see more cases." The villain is

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