Eight People Suffer Burns After Attempting Viral 'Boiling Water Challenge'

A burn surgeon at Loyola University Medical has treated eight different people for second and third-degree burns after they attempted to replicate the viral 'boiling water challenge,' according to one local news station.
These people (like many others as seen across social media) heated water and threw it into the sub-zero air, expecting it to transform into a powder-like state and blow away in the wind. But that apparently didn't work out for everyone; sometimes the water stayed liquid and hit people. The youngest patient seen at Loyola is 3 years old. Sanford said that individual (like some of the other patients) was just standing next to someone else throwing the water.... Sanford said there are likely several others out there with first degree burns that didn't seek medical attention.

CNN Wire Services also reports at least three more 'boiling water challenge' burn victims in Minneapolis and Iowa.

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