Attack Of The Brain-Eating Amoeba!

[dennilfloss]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Sc.../09/28/4534375-ap.html

Like you southerners don't have enough venomous critters to worry about, now you will probably see an increase of nose-entering, brain-eating protoplasm. :shocked:

 

[mwmorph]

Reminds me of this

 

[vhx]

Poor little guy, starved to death.

 

[OutHouse]

ack!! WTF???

 

[dennilfloss]

Someone wrote elsewhere that they can enter through the ear also.:shocked:

 

[lyssword]

omgwtfbbq? :Q

 

[Mermaidman]

When I saw the headline, i thought it occured in some allah-forsaken 3rd world country, not Arizona!

 

[hanoverphist]

yipe, i took my kids to havasu and we swam at the "beach" for a few hours too early in the summer! that would have really sucked. feel sorry for that family.



edit: damn keyboard

 

[mundane]

Beach said people become infected when they wade through shallow water and stir up the bottom. If someone allows water to shoot up the nose ? say, by doing a somersault in chest-deep water ? the amoeba can latch onto the olfactory nerve.
The amoeba destroys tissue as it makes its way up into the brain, where it continues the damage, ?basically feeding on the brain cells,? Beach said.
People who are infected tend to complain of a stiff neck, headaches and fevers. In the later stages, they?ll show signs of brain damage such as hallucinations and behavioral changes, he said.
Once infected, most people have little chance of survival. Some drugs have stopped the amoeba in lab experiments, but people who have been attacked rarely survive, Beach said.

Sounds like a great way to go. Wikipedia Link

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Sc.../09/28/4534375-ap.html

Like you southerners don't have enough venomous critters to worry about, now you will probably see an increase of nose-entering, brain-eating protoplasm. :shocked:

Eh? Southerns don't need to worry about their brains getting eaten...

 

[imported_Nacelle]

My first thought was "The Wrath of Khan"

 

[FoBoT]

i think i am safe, you said "brain", right?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: vhx
Poor little guy, starved to death.

a quoter :heart:

a/s/l?

 

[irishScott]

Read about this awhile ago. Infections are insanely rare. IIRC only 11 people died from it last year.

 

[Juno]

does it apply to warm water?