{"id":5766,"date":"2022-10-23T17:37:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T17:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2022-10-23T17:37:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T17:37:26","slug":"experts-lake-mead-brain-eating-amoeba-death-among-few-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=5766","title":{"rendered":"Experts: Lake Mead brain-eating amoeba death among few in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 The death of a Las Vegas-area teenager from a rare brain-eating amoeba that investigators think he was exposed to in warm waters at Lake Mead should prompt caution, not panic, among people at freshwater lakes, rivers and springs, experts said Friday.<br \/>\n\u201cIt gets people\u2019s attention because of the name,\u201d former public health epidemiologist Brian Labus said of the naturally occurring organism officially called Naegleria fowleri but almost always dubbed the brain-eating amoeba&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/article\/Experts-Lake-Mead-brain-eating-amoeba-death-17526193.php\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 The death of a Las Vegas-area teenager from a rare brain-eating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5766-experts-lake-mead-brain-eating-amoeba-death-among-few-in-us.jpg",2048,1417,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5766-experts-lake-mead-brain-eating-amoeba-death-among-few-in-us-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5766-experts-lake-mead-brain-eating-amoeba-death-among-few-in-us-300x208.jpg",300,208,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5766-experts-lake-mead-brain-eating-amoeba-death-among-few-in-us-768x531.jpg",640,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5766-experts-lake-mead-brain-eating-amoeba-death-among-few-in-us-1024x709.jpg",640,443,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5766-experts-lake-mead-brain-eating-amoeba-death-among-few-in-us-1536x1063.jpg",1536,1063,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5766-experts-lake-mead-brain-eating-amoeba-death-among-few-in-us.jpg",2048,1417,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5766-experts-lake-mead-brain-eating-amoeba-death-among-few-in-us-1024x709.jpg",1024,709,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5766-experts-lake-mead-brain-eating-amoeba-death-among-few-in-us-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5766-experts-lake-mead-brain-eating-amoeba-death-among-few-in-us-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}