Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Brain-eating amoebas sound scary. I mean, they eat your brain! That doesn’t mean you have to let them keep you up at night. These amoebas /are/ deadly, but there are a lot of reasons not to panic. Here’s why you should, and shouldn’t, be terrified.

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