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Stealhead · 07-31-13, 11:57 AM

Read the CDC page if the pool does not have proper care it could still have the little bastards in it.Make it a salt water pool they do not live in salt water.

I think you have to partly be very unlucky but also you need to very active in the water and be doing a lot of jumping and diving things that get lots of water up into your nose and nasal cavities if you're not sticking your head under water you are not at risk.These things are fairly rare and the chance that one will get into you is fairly low.

Doing some reading the kid was at a water park which means that the water was not properly chlorinated and another infection was traced to the same park in 2010.

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Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Read the CDC page if the pool does not have proper care it could still have the little bastards in it.Make it a salt water pool they do not live in salt water. I think you have to partly be very unlucky but also you need to very active in the water and be doing a lot of jumping and diving things that get lots of water up into your nose and nasal cavities if you're not sticking your head under water you are not at risk.These things are fairly rare and the chance that one will get into you is fairly low. Doing some reading the kid was at a water park which means that the water was not properly chlorinated and another infection was traced to the same park in 2010. Last edited by Stealhead; 07-31-13 at 12:17 PM.