Brain-eating amoeba linked to Southwest Indiana death

[snorko]

Oh Crap!

An autopsy report shows a parasite known as the "brain-eating amoeba" killed a southwestern Indiana man...He died Aug. 7, just over three weeks after a family outing at West Boggs Lake, about 60 miles northeast of Evansville. The beach there was ordered closed Friday.


Read more: Brain-eating amoeba suspected in Indiana man's death | Fox News

 

[threefiftyfour]

thank God I am brainless!

 

[shibumiseeker]

Your risk of drowning is still higher...

Nasty bug though.

 

[CountryBoy19]

Oh crap... I have a co-worker that lives on Boggs lake... he hasn't been in to work in several weeks...





Nah, just kidding, his wife just had a baby so he's staying home for that reason... he really does live on Boggs Lake though...

 

[.45 Dave]

Wow--I thought this was a disease found only in Washington D.C. !

 

[cosermann]

As long as you don't snort contaminated water up your nose, you're good to go.

 

[hoosierdoc]

I use the Neti-pot with lake water. Is that a bad idea?

 

[gungirl65]

This explains what is wrong with Bunnykid. Sorry Bunny, hope you recover from this. We're here for you buddy.

 

[Ted]

Brain-eating amoeba suspected in Indiana man's death

The female with the brain-eating amoeba remains in no danger.

 

[gungirl65]

The female with the brain-eating amoeba remains in no danger.

 

[pfinley82]

I use the Neti-pot with lake water. Is that a bad idea?

I was thinking the same thing!

 

[mdemetz]

As long as you don't snort contaminated water up your nose, you're good to go.

They say the way one usually gets this is by diving in shallow water and hitting the bottom with your face. The amoeba lives in the muck and goes up through the sinus cavities.

 

[dom1104]

They say the way one usually gets this is by diving in shallow water and hitting the bottom with your face. The amoeba lives in the muck and goes up through the sinus cavities.

Aw man, thats my favorite part.

 

[Bunnykid68]

This explains what is wrong with Bunnykid. Sorry Bunny, hope you recover from this. We're here for you buddy.

 

[Mackey]

Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
(I'm going to try to add that to my vocabulary, although "Brain Eating Amoeba" sounds more menacing. The wikipedia article below is a pretty good primer.

Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The description of how it eats its way from the sinus up into the brain is like a Twilight Zone movie or something.

 

[cobber]

Are you sure this isn't something that migrated across the border in NWI Indiana? Seems to be endemic in Chicago city hall.

 

[Ted]

Are you sure this isn't something that migrated across the border in NWI Indiana? Seems to be endemic in Chicago city hall.

Likely, but multiple vectors in the form of liberal politics have also brought it from Northeast and Western coastal regions of the U.S.

 

[tv1217]

This is how they make dispatchers in the trucking industry.

 

[cosermann]

All the cases I've heard of this year were swimmers who snorted water up their nose. Didn't see anything about snorting bottom mud up their nose.

And yeah, even using tap water in a Neti pot can kill you. There was a case of that in the UK this year.

Run away!

 

[williamnewman1]

Your risk of drowning is still higher...

Nasty bug though.

or getting cut on broken glass there too