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Brain Eating Amoeba Sparks “Do Not Use Water” Advisory In Part Of Texas
https://www.forbes.com ^ | Sep 26, 2020,03:08pm EDT | Victoria ForsterContributor

Posted on 09/26/2020 1:15:53 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

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To: HollyB

It enters through the nose,not the mouth. Nose clips recommended while swimming.

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21 posted on 09/26/2020 1:37:02 PM PDT by Mears (.)
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To: SkyDancer

Joe never had a brain to begin with.


22 posted on 09/26/2020 1:40:13 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Fill that seat!)
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To: TexasGator

LOL


23 posted on 09/26/2020 1:41:02 PM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: Dr. Sivana

——Here in Phoenix, we get our water from a kiosk as the tap water has issues.——

That’s because you chose to LIVE IN A DESERT!!!!!!


24 posted on 09/26/2020 1:42:17 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: angry elephant

Boiled tap water is fine. Even 140 degrees kills naegleria fowleri very dead.


25 posted on 09/26/2020 1:43:19 PM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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To: angry elephant

I think about this every time I hear ads for nasal irrigation products.


26 posted on 09/26/2020 1:48:31 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer
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To: RomanSoldier19

Could this be the problem with Joe Biden? He looks like that his brain is being eaten.


27 posted on 09/26/2020 1:51:30 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: polymuser

There is a thin area of skull bone separating the nasal cavity from the brain. Water under force can basically push this amoeba through this area.

Showers are fine.

Always hold you nose when jumping to a lake or river.


28 posted on 09/26/2020 1:52:38 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: lizma2

“Always hold you nose when jumping to a lake or river.”

Guess I was lucky. Many years of lake and river horseplay, fast slalom ski wipeouts, tubing “Whip ‘em” wipeouts...


29 posted on 09/26/2020 1:57:40 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: HollyB
Of 145 documented infections up to 2018, there were only 4 survivors

Now THAT would be a legit reason for fear and panic. Not some glorified chest cold with a survival rate between 96.4% and 99.7%, going by age group.

30 posted on 09/26/2020 2:00:47 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
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31 posted on 09/26/2020 2:01:13 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Want Stalinazism More ? PLUGS-WHORE 2020 !)
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To: tinyowl

lol


32 posted on 09/26/2020 2:07:10 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: angry elephant

IIRC it was a different kind of brain eating amoeba but deadly just the same.


33 posted on 09/26/2020 2:15:17 PM PDT by 31R1O
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To: polymuser

Me too!

I loved skiing. The elderly gentleman who taught me swore he learned to ski using boards tied to his feet!


34 posted on 09/26/2020 2:15:32 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: oldplayer
That’s because you chose to LIVE IN A DESERT!!!!!!

I'm not complaining. It is still better than the water in Rockford, Illinois. MUCH better than Depue, IL that had a zinc foundry that went under. The folks left behind whose homes have almost no value are given bottled water by the government. The "downtown" was down to a laundramat, two bars, and an EPA office. (that was a decade ago, but no sign anything was being done about it).
35 posted on 09/26/2020 2:17:44 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

The instructions for the Neilmed sinus rinse state to only use distilled or purified water, never plain tap water.


36 posted on 09/26/2020 2:20:05 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: lizma2

I remember the ski belts! Fall feet-first and it went under you armpits and so tight someone had to help release the D-ringed strap.

And $5 got you six gallons of gas, a quart of 30 weight, two Cokes and a bag of chips. With change.


37 posted on 09/26/2020 2:23:07 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: polymuser

Of course, minimum wage was like $1.45.


38 posted on 09/26/2020 2:25:40 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

A babysitting service for single mothers and dual income households.

An indoctrination institution applying newspeak and teaching every pop culture socialist fad as scientific fact.

A money maker for some (publishing companies for example who also pushed the standardized testing).

A platform for politicians to grand stand.

Kids graduating from an American high school may not be able to read well, write a paragraph, do simple algebra or geometry. They won’t be able to write cursive, tell you about some of the greatest writers in the English language (Mark Twain), prominent artists in the Renaissance (Michelangelo). They won’t be able to tell you much about one of the greatest play writers in English (Shakespeare). Their spectacular abilities in civics won’t make them able to tell you the first ten amendments to the US Constitution and what they mean, even in general terms.

BUT!!! The Average American kid coming from one of these highly rated institutions of learning will be able to tell you about global warming, what it means to be “triggered” and how homosexuals are picked on.


39 posted on 09/26/2020 2:26:27 PM PDT by Red6
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To: RomanSoldier19
Brain-eating amoebae halted by silver nanoparticles

Naegleria fowleri

40 posted on 09/26/2020 2:28:49 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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