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July 28, 2016

N.C. whitewater park to use lots of chlorine to kill brain-eating amoeba

  • U.S. National Whitewater Center shut down its rafting course after a woman died last month from an infection caused by the amoeba.

    • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The water at a North Carolina whitewater recreation center will be treated with 10 times the amount of chlorine typically needed to kill a brain-eating amoeba to get rid of the microorganism that caused the death of a rafter from Ohio last month, scientists said.

    The U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte has permission to begin treating the water whenever it is ready, Mecklenburg County Health Department Director Marcus Plescia said at a news conference Wednesday.


     
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