{"id":40819,"date":"2020-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/07\/lake-jackson-texas-lifts-boil-water-notice-triggered-by-parasite\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:10:05","slug":"lake-jackson-texas-lifts-boil-water-notice-triggered-by-parasite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/07\/lake-jackson-texas-lifts-boil-water-notice-triggered-by-parasite\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Jackson, Texas, Lifts Boil-Water Notice Triggered by Parasite"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Notice lifted after disinfectant levels in drinking water were documented to be above the state requirements<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A boil-water notice prompted by a boy&#8217;s death from brain-eating amoeba has been lifted in Lake Jackson, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The notice was lifted Tuesday after disinfectant levels in the drinking water were documented to be above the state requirements, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The commission also said that water samples tested negative for dangerous bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>However, the commission continued to caution city water users to avoid getting water up their noses to reduce the risk for infection by the brain-eating microbe <i>Naegleria fowleri<\/i>, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/environment-houston-texas-80d28618f40a29ee2d0fa88b6c39c7aa\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notice lifted after disinfectant levels in drinking water were documented to be above the state requirements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":40854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-40819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}