For the record - Jan. 5, 2009
Hot springs illness: A Dec. 29 article on the risks of an infection from soaking in freshwater lakes and hot springs misspelled the name of the amoeba that causes the illness as Naegleria flowleri. It is Naegleria fowleri.
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