Google 'polluted rivers and lakes in China'. All their lakes and rivers are horribly polluted. And to think we still import food (or anything) from China.
Posted on 09/27/2007 5:06:32 AM PDT by radar101
A friend of mine survived this disease.
He swam in very dirty swimming pool and became ill a few days later.
His doctor was treating him for a sinus infection.
The doctor sent him home where he had a seizure and was sent back to the emergency room.
He was rushed to a better hospital in the city that night where, after emergency brain surgery, he recovered.
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This amoeba has long been a concern for people soaking in natural hot springs in the Southwest, but the better informed know to just avoid immersing their head in the water.
Please stay out of Lake Havasu if you value your brain!
I’ve seen this on our local news, we’ve had 3 or 4 kids die from it already.
I'll stick to the pool.
Deadly amoeba lurks in Florida lakes
ORLANDO, Florida (CNN) — Something in the lakes around Orlando, Florida, has claimed the lives of three boys this summer.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/09/18/zarrella.killerlakes/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail
He didn't have to. It's a given. The debate is over.
Yeah, I heard the lefties had declared the debate over. I don't think any sane person can deny the warming though. I was in Alaska last year and was kind of sad to see how much the glaciers have receded. What used to be spectacular sheer walls of ice is now a rocky, muddy mess. But there's no proof it's manmade.
Did you see the story about the other creatures they found in another Texas lake?
I believe they were also amoebas which, are normally the size of a pencil eraser. These things grew to the size of dinner plates. Looked a little like those cabbage-head jellyfish you see at the coast.
I blame it on fertilizer runoff.
I guess he's too busy bashing Bush, Israel, and the US in general, to actually do something positive, like clean up at least the water supply in a single village.
Naturally, we just had to check out the temperature by sticking hands in the water.
If the tour guide had said something about parasitic brain amoebas, I would have thought twice about it.
When I visited Egypt and took a Nile cruise, while at Aswan, we took a boat ride to I think it was called serpentine island, and we had the opportunity to “drink from the Nile.” We declined. The Water may have been OK that far up river, but I understand by the time it reaches Cairo, drinking from the Nile would probably be suicide.
Thanks for the ping.
You don't have to be sane to go on line.
It seems boys are more likely to pick their noses relative to girls, as are children, relative to adults.
The key to the infection is likely through the self injection of the amoeba by manual means into the tissues of the nasal mucosae via abrasions made while nosepicking.
(Once again, Mom was right!)
Google 'polluted rivers and lakes in China'. All their lakes and rivers are horribly polluted. And to think we still import food (or anything) from China.
Assuming that the diagnosis is correct, the odds on this are something like surviving a fall out of a 5 story window! Your friend's son is very very lucky, and must have had superb medical care. He is very blessed.
He is very lucky.
At the time his doctor told him that he was the first survivor of that disease, ever.
I researched it before posting because I wanted to be sure that he didn’t have some other brain-eating bacterial disease but I couldn’t find references to when and where the first survivor happened. He was ill in the summer of 1979 and was operated on in Houston.
I remember his doctor saying that the bacterial growth from his sinus area ate through into the brain cavity and caused a brain infection, so I’m thinking that this must be the same disease.
He’s on seizure medication for life.
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