{"id":18986,"date":"2020-10-02T14:56:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T21:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18986"},"modified":"2020-10-02T13:29:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T20:29:43","slug":"texas-residents-warned-of-tap-water-tainted-with-brain-eating-microbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/texas-residents-warned-of-tap-water-tainted-with-brain-eating-microbe\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas residents warned of tap water tainted with brain-eating microbe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Guardian – September 26, 2020<\/p>\n

Texas officials have warned residents of some communities near Houston to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating microbe.<\/p>\n

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality warned the Brazosport Water<\/a> Authority late on Friday of the potential contamination of its water supply by Naegleria fowleri<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The commission issued an advisory warning people not to use tap water for any reason except to flush toilets in Lake Jackson, Freeport, Angleton, Brazoria, Richwood, Oyster Creek, Clute and Rosenberg.<\/p>\n

Those communities are home to about 120,000 people. Also affected are the Dow Chemical works in Freeport, which has 4,200 employees, and the Clemens and Wayne Scott state prison units, which have 2,345 inmates and 655 employees.<\/p>\n

The Brazosport Water Authority\u2019s water source is the Brazos river.<\/p>\n

Naegleria fowleri<\/em> is a microscopic amoeba commonly found in warm freshwater and soil, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It usually infects people when contaminated water enters the body through the nose, from where it travels to the brain and can cause a rare and debilitating disease called primary amebic meningoencephalitis.<\/p>\n

The infection is usually fatal and typically occurs when people go swimming or diving in warm freshwater places such as lakes and rivers. In very rare instances, Naegleria<\/em> infections may also occur when contaminated water from other sources, such as inadequately chlorinated swimming pool water or heated and contaminated tap water, enters the nose.<\/p>\n

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Guardian – September 26, 2020 Texas officials have warned residents of some communities near Houston to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating microbe. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality warned the Brazosport Water Authority late on Friday of the potential contamination of its water supply by Naegleria fowleri. … Continue reading Texas residents warned of tap water tainted with brain-eating microbe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[15281,15279,36,22,15280,23,15278,15277,15283,1358,42,15282,15276],"class_list":["post-18986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pale-horse","tag-brazos-river","tag-brazosport-water-authority","tag-disaster","tag-disease","tag-environmental-quality","tag-epidemic","tag-freeport","tag-lake-jackson","tag-naegleria","tag-naegleria-fowleri","tag-outbreak","tag-primary-amebic-meningoencephalitis","tag-tap-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4We","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18988,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18986\/revisions\/18988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}