The woman contracted a fatal infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba and died eight days after developing symptoms.
A Texas woman died from an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba days after she cleaned her sinuses using tap water, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case report.
The woman, an otherwise healthy 71-year-old, developed “severe neurologic symptoms,” including fever, headache and an altered mental status, four days after she filled a nasal irrigation device with tap water from her RV’s water system at a Texas campsite, the CDC report said.
She was treated for primary amebic meningoencephalitis — a brain infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, often referred to as the “brain-eating amoeba.” Despite treatment, the woman experienced seizures and died from the infection eight days after she developed symptoms, the agency said.
Well that’s precisely the argument that this specific thread is bringing forward.
They are saying the tap water in France, US or another random country is not the same. The regulation around water sources, treatment, urbanism, architecture is different and this has consequences. The regulation around medical devices is also different.
The argument is not trying to say the amoeba gives a shit, rather than instructions on medical devices are country specific because regulations are different.