Somehow this must (said to) be linked to Climate Change
Biden’s gardener?
They never say that it is probably due to a compromised immune system due to his advanced age. I am sure that there fas been about 10 children playing in the area eating that same dirt with no ill effects.
But still, he managed to vote a straight Democratic Party ticket before he checked out.
And to think I was ever worried about COVID.
the shape-shifting organism? what the hell?
That way with words is getting more attention for sure. Changes in news reporting resulting from the popularity of the Internet are bringing some interesting changes, indeed. Some people get tougher. Many others get crazier.
Next pLandemic?
The old man could have picked up the amoeba anywhere. Mostly young people are killed by it, because they’re more likely to swim in mucky places or play in dirt or mud. The victims might be getting it into the brain mostly by way of the nose.
It’s very rare for people to die from that, though, maybe because it’s difficult to get the amoeba into the brain. When swimming in murky water, avoid inhaling it. Don’t stick it up the nose when doing anything with soil.
I like swimming and fishing in murky lakes and ponds with algae floating on them. I also like planting vegetables in the yard. ;)
So now they want people to be afraid to do their own gardening.
Can’t have any of the being independent stuff, you know. Not depending on the government for sustenance.
Covid?
Or is this some soil he got in the mail?
Must be Covid-19. Number 199,999. Every other death is covid-19.
Ameoba in the dirt. Ameoba in dirt gets on hands or gloves. Pollen or dust causes gardner to sneeze. Gardner wipes nose with dirty hands/gloves. Amoeba now in the gardner’s nose...
2020 has a new game
I got mersa (spelling). Had a cut. Gardened in my yard.
Started out as a small black spot. Finally spread between two fingers and wasn’t stopping.
Victims rise 3 minutes to 8 hours after death with extreme cannibalistic tendencies.
Somehow this must (said to) be linked to Climate Change
I didn’t read through all the comments but it is my understanding these things enter your system, usually via your nose. Perhaps he had dirt under his nails and scratched his nose or even went digging in his nostril. Could have even simply rubbed his hand across his nose and sniffled if his nose was running. These amoebas usually make it into someone’s body by swimming in warm fresh water.
Shape shifting, brain eating garden amoebas. Welcome to 2020.
From what I understand from my Mom, she contracted M.A.C. (Mycobacterium Avium Complex) and Pseudomonas Areuginosa (a rod-shaped, gram-negative bacterial infection) from the usage of potting soil quite a few years ago. She is now clear of the M.A.C. but still suffers from the Pseudomonas, which stays in her sinuses and prevents her from being able to taste or smell.
After being teated with antibiotics for at least three bouts of pneumonia many years before any of this took place, she had extensive scarring damage in her lungs and bronchial passages. She was also premature at birth and both her parents smoked heavily.
For several years after being diagnosed with M.A.C. and then Pseudomonas Areuginosa, she was given a myriad of antibiotic treatments, including the insertion of a PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter) to administer some drugs that cannot be taken otherwise. A nurse came each day and flushed the line, checked the ports and sanitized them, and started her treatment. She eventually learned to do all of this herself, but she was so weak at times from both her illnesses and the medications, the nurse had to return.
None of the medications touched the Pseudomonas Areuginosa infection, and the last weapon in her lung / infectious diseases doctors’ arsenal was Tobimycin—the most potent and unfortunately unbelievably physically intolerable treatment. She had to stop it.
Over the many years of her illnesses, I did a lot of research on how exactly these diseases worked, where they came from, and any kind of new research, discovery, or technical lab reports. I found out about what is now called “Phage Technology”, a century - old treatment discovered before penicillin. Phagotherapy, or the use of lytic bacteriophages, is a treatment by which lytic bacteriophages attach to the diseased cell and then inject it with its own materials, killing the harmful bacteria. Once only in research phase at the Texas A&M Phage Technology Lab, it looks to now be readily available in quite a few U.S. locations.
Please pray for me as I look into finding a nearby location for my dear Mom to receive treatment, as it is also now approved as a “compassionate-use” therapy and prayerfully her insurers won’t balk at it. She’s so very ill and weak and can hardly draw a breath without a punishing coughing fit. Dear Lord Jesus, it doesn’t have to be me—you know the circumstances. Please send that right doctor and hospital or clinic into her life.
Thank in advance for your prayers, my beloved FReeper FRiends. God’s Eternal Grace is with you always.
“An elderly gardener died from a brain-eating amoeba found in soil after it turned part of his frontal lobe into a mushy liquid...”
When did Biden take up gardening? ;)