Six people have died from brain-eating amoebas that call warm, shallow lake water home. It enters the body through the nose and then attacks the brain, eating away at the cells until the victim dies. The amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, killed 23 people from 1995-2004 and has only infected several hundred people worldwide since 1960.

The sudden spike in cases may be due to warmer water temperatures around the US due to global warming.

Just what I need, another reason not to go swimming in open water anywhere.