[ELI5] What is an Amoeba? Are they all dangerous like the brain eating variant?

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I heard recently that someone got a brain eating amoeba. Are there other variants that are as dangerous for internal organs or was this just one type that happened to infect the brain?

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amoeba are single-cell animals, slightly more evolved than bacteria.

Some are dangerous, some aren’t.
Biggest danger is stomach diseases, from drinking dirty water, or washing fruit in dirty water.

Brain-eating amoeba is pretty unique and pretty rare. But our media knows that scares generate more clicks.

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