Category: Health
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Doctors warn against swimming, showering with contact lenses
Doctors are reminding those who wear contacts to remove their lenses before showering or swimming.
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Scarborough Beach North back open for swimming; 2 others closed
People looking to cool off at the shore can once again take a dip at a portion of Scarborough Beach in Narragansett.
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Teaching Others: From the Classroom to the Swimming Pool
When Herman Kelly isn’t teaching at LSU, you can find him swimming at the indoor pool inside LSU’s university recreation center, or UREC. Kelly is an adjunct instructor in LSU’s School of Education and College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ African American Studies. He’s been teaching at LSU for more than 20 years, and when…
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Swimmers react to “fecal contamination” announcement at Berkeley pool
As Laina Adler, who shared this video with Berkeleyside put it, these are words you never want to hear: “Pool closed for the day due to fecal contamination.” Adler caught the moments after the announcement was made over a megaphone at Strawberry Canyon pool around 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 28. Swimmers scrambled to get…
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Fantasy Lake water park: Rare brain-eating amoeba kills swimmer at Hope Mills water park
A man has died from a brain-eating amoeba contracted at a water park in Hope Mills. Health officials are working with Fantasy Lake Water Park on ways to protect swimmers in the future.
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The Brain-Eating Amoeba Is a Nearly Perfect Killer
Last week, a North Carolina man became a notorious microbial killer’s first confirmed victim this year. The 59-year-old Eddie Gray had unknowingly come across a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a man-made lake near Fayetteville in mid-July; 10 days later, he was dead. Since the brain-eating amoeba was first recognized and named, in 1970, grisly reports of its disastrous attacks…
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Man dies after being infected with brain-eating amoeba from swimming in NC lake
The man became ill on July 12 after swimming at Fantasy Lake Water Park in Cumberland County, NCDHHS says.
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