Māori children sit in hot pools at Whakarewarewa in the late 1800s, ready to dive for coins thrown into the pools by tourists. It is now not recommended to submerge the face in thermal pools due to the risk of amoebic meningitis. Eight fatal cases occurred in Waikato between 1968 and 1978, and one in Rotorua in 2000.
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