The Brain Eating Amoeba (phobia, symptom, emergency, medication)
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plug noses won't eliminate the chance of infection, only reduce it
typical arrogant human, acting like nothing can touch him
And a response by the typical person lacking any type of reasoning.
My point is that practically everything else you engage in everyday is far more likely to kill you. People are more likely to die drowning in the water you are so scared of. People are more likely to die from the flu that people often roll their eyes at. In health care, I see all kinds of people, young and old, dying from sepsis---NOT from amoebas---but from your common, everyday bacteria.
I choose to live my life knowing anything can kill me at any time. And that I'm more likely to die driving my car to and from work everyday than I am from an amoeba. If you're into scaring yourself, there are so many other organisms you can look up as well.
Uh??! Next time try to make a joke that doesn't require a phd to get.
There was a movie, based on a true story, about a little girl who got bit by a bat on a camping trip and didn't know it. By the time they found out she had rabies, it was too late to save her. They built a new children's hospital in her memory. It's not a joke, just a reference to the original source of the rumor about people getting bit by bats and not knowing it. Lots of people have heard the story, but a lot of them don't know where it originally came from, because people who see the movie tell their friends the story and their friends forget where the story came from but tell their friends, etc.
Waviking - my post was in response to the PB posts....Just sayin' that eating PB frequently did not harm my children in any way, shape, or form. No aflatoxin for them.
This is why you should NEVER swim in lakes, ponds, rivers, hot springs, unchlorinated or minimally-chlorinated swimming pools etc. If it enters through the mouth, nothing happens, it is killed by the stomach acids, but if enter through your nose, it will travel to the brain and infect it. It will cause encephalitis, severe inflammation. A person infected with N. fowleri cannot spread the infection to another person.
There is no cure or vaccine. 99.9% chance that you will die. It is even more dangerous than rabies.
Most people in society, are not even aware of this microbes. This is why knowledge is even more important than money.
I think your probably not serious with a post like this.
But if you are serious then I would like to alert you to this thing called Lightening.
It kills 10 times the people each year in the US alone as your pathetic amoeba does.
This is why you should NEVER swim in lakes, ponds, rivers, hot springs, unchlorinated or minimally-chlorinated swimming pools etc. If it enters through the mouth, nothing happens, it is killed by the stomach acids, but if enter through your nose, it will travel to the brain and infect it.
It first has to get past my snot locker collection of boogers...That has stopped every airborne virus so far...
There was a movie, based on a true story, about a little girl who got bit by a bat on a camping trip and didn't know it. By the time they found out she had rabies, it was too late to save her. They built a new children's hospital in her memory. It's not a joke, just a reference to the original source of the rumor about people getting bit by bats and not knowing it. Lots of people have heard the story, but a lot of them don't know where it originally came from, because people who see the movie tell their friends the story and their friends forget where the story came from but tell their friends, etc.
I'm glad they can't survive in cold water because not being able to swim in that frigid Lake Michigan on one of our unbearable, hot, humid, miserable days would make me suicidal.
Maybe it would be better for people to swim a ways off of the shore and away from the sediment? It sounds like the amoeba lives close to the shore. Who wants to walk in that yucky muck anyway?
Hmmm I wonder how many people are killed by vector born illnesses from sand flies, mosquitoes, fleas, and ticks vs the rare amoeba? I think I'd be more afraid of mosquitoes then amoebas. I get at least a dozen bites every summer. Yikes.
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