Brain-Eating Amoeba

[thrasherfox]

If you frequent warm waters (lakes, pools whereever) you should probably read the following article so you can be paranoid while trying to have fun and relax

On a serious note, everyone should be aware of this so you know the signs to look for, if caught quickly enough you have a chance of surviving

http://www.webmd.com/news....-summer

 

[twotonevert]

Thanks, now I can really look forward to summer.

 

[thrasherfox]

Thanks, now I can really look forward to summer.  

I am here for YOU!!  

 

[WWJD]

It's cool how this stuff NEVER EXISTED when I was a kid... or maybe uber communications makes it possible for us to be paranoid about every little thing?

 

[twotonevert]

Thanks, now I can really look forward to summer.  

I am here for YOU!!  

 

 

[HRHDi]

It's cool how this stuff NEVER EXISTED when I was a kid... or maybe uber communications makes it possible for us to be paranoid about every little thing?

Exactly. And we ate raw cookie dough out of the bowl without worrying about the uncooked eggs in it.

 

[WWJD]

I STILL eating freaking raw cookie dough and have not died yet.

Ignorance >IS< bliss!!!

 

[Mr Bogus]

Oh my what wont pass for a "warning" now days

Giant squids grabbing you, sasquatch stealing dinner, Aliens spying through your window, Brain eating Amoebas, and of course the every popular, "ZX beating the Busa"...

 

[00busaTX]

Oh my what wont pass for a "warning" now days  

   

Giant squids grabbing you, sasquatch stealing dinner, Aliens spying through your window, Brain eating Amoebas, and of course the every popular, "ZX beating the Busa"...

Now that was funny

 

[Fate]

Oh great 6 cases were in all in South and some in Florida, and I just moved Here!!!! What did I get myself into, no swimming for me

" * May/June 2007: Angel Arroyo Vasquez, age 14, of Orlando, Fla., was swimming in an apartment swimming pool.
* July 2007: Will Sellars, age 11, of Orlando, Fla., was swimming and wakeboarding in Lake Conway.
* August 2007: Richard Almeida, age 10, of Kissimmee, Fla., was swimming and wakeboarding at Orlando Watersports Complex.
* August 2007: John "Jack" Herrera, age 12, participated in water activities during summer camp at Lake LBJ in Texas.
* August 2007: Colby Sawyer, age 22, ruptured his eardrum while wakeboarding at Lake LBJ in Texas.
* September 2007: Aaron Evans, age 14, was swimming at Lake Havasu in northeastern Arizona."

 

[Mr Bogus]

(more people drowned last year)

 

[Projekt]

Didn't something like 8-12 people die of that in the US last year? 8-12 is hardly a pandemic...

 

[VaBusa]

So I should up the chlorine in the white trash pool 'til our eyes burn?

Actually, I had never heard of this 'til last summer when I saw in the paper that a young child had died from it...I'm sure his parents didn't know about this stuff either, and would it have made any difference in their plans? I don't know...just sad to know that having fun in the water *may* lead to something so tragic...

 

[pbghost]

figures that it's only in Tx, Fl, and Az... the amoebas starved to death searching for food in the other 47 states

 

[thrasherfox]

figures that it's only in Tx, Fl, and Az... the amoebas starved to death searching for food in the other 47 states

 

[semi]

figures that it's only in Tx, Fl, and Az... the amoebas starved to death searching for food in the other 47 states

well, that does explain some of the driving skills (or lack thereof) in those states

 

[Mr Bogus]

So I should up the chlorine in the white trash pool 'til our eyes burn?

Actually, I had never heard of this 'til last summer when I saw in the paper that a young child had died from it...I'm sure his parents didn't know about this stuff either, and would it have made any difference in their plans? I don't know...just sad to know that having fun in the water *may* lead to something so tragic...

its not the chlorine that makes your eyes burn...

 

[VaBusa]

So I should up the chlorine in the white trash pool 'til our eyes burn?

Actually, I had never heard of this 'til last summer when I saw in the paper that a young child had died from it...I'm sure his parents didn't know about this stuff either, and would it have made any difference in their plans? I don't know...just sad to know that having fun in the water *may* lead to something so tragic...

its not the chlorine that makes your eyes burn...

You're not using enough then

Don't go trying to one-up me...you had to use GPS to find the MicroTel two blocks away

...moving right along...

 

[Mr Bogus]

just documenting the madness Mam, just documenting....

 

[99'busa]