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UV water disinfection key to preventing deadly amoeba

<p>RURAL communities are being warned of the dangerous water borne brain eating amoeba Naegleria Fowleri, which thrives in water temperatures above 25 degrees celsius and has been discovered in lakes, creeks, dams, bores and rainwater tanks across the country.</p>

Alex Paul
UV water disinfection key to preventing deadly amoeba

  The impact of the deadly amoeba was highlighted recently by the ABC program Four Corners. Since 2001, three children, all living within 100km of each other in rural Queensland, have died from meningitis...

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A growing series of reports, each focused on a key discussion point for the farming sector, brought to you by the Farming Ahead team.

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