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.
When you are potting plants, you generally don’t use dirt from the ground as it introduces too many diseases to your plants. It’s better to buy bags of potting soil.
But he was no doubt on a fixed income and probably couldn’t afford potting soil, so he used garden dirt.
Yesterday my daughter told me a boy mixed a drink with his spit in a pencil sharpener and then drank it.
Actually the do say it, which is why it helps to read the article rather than just the summary.
You read sometimes about swimmers who contract an ameoba through their nose. Typically in the late summer, in relatively stagnant pools or streams, and more in the southern states. Ingesting an ameoba might destroy it by stomach acids. Coming in through the nose it can enter your circulatory system via the respiratory system. So I understand.
Sounds like a terrible way to go as I don’t know what can be done for a person once it reaches the brain.
Right--because amoebas can tell the difference.
This is not a virus or a bacteria. It's not about your immune system.