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98 Percent Kill Rate–Brain Eating Amoebas Consuming Human Brains In Midwest–Infecting Home Water Systems In South
by Monica Davis
Killer brain eating parasites have killed hundreds of people from the Great Lakes down to the Mississippi River over the last decade. For sheer terror and fatalities, the brain eating parasite makes the flesh eating bacteria look like an amateur.
An autopsy report shows a parasite known as the “brain-eating amoeba” killed a Southwestern Indiana man.
State and federal officials haven’t yet confirmed 30-year-old Waylon Abel of Loogootee died of a rare infection known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis, but the autopsy report released Friday lists it as his primary cause of death.An autopsy report shows a parasite known as the “brain-eating amoeba” killed a Southwestern Indiana man.
State and federal officials haven’t yet confirmed 30-year-old Waylon Abel of Loogootee died of a rare infection known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis, but the autopsy report released Friday lists it as his primary cause of death. READ MORE HERE
Over the last decade, hundreds of people have died from swimming in infected water. According to the American Camp Association:
Naegleria fowleri is a brain-eating amoeba that lives in warm freshwater (such as lakes, rivers, hot springs, and ponds). It can enter the human body through the nostrils and be potentially life threatening. Naegleria fowleri causes the disease Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM), a brain infection that leads to the destruction of brain tissue. While the condition is rare (120 reported cases since the amoeba was identified in 1960), there have been three reported cases in the summer of 2011. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), infections are most likely to occur when it is hot for prolonged periods of time. Heat waves cause higher water temperatures and lower water levels.
This parasite is found in more than 70 percent of American lakes and hijacks the brain by cutting holes in brain cells and consuming them.
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Monsters Inside Me: Brain Eating Amoeba
Monsters Inside Me: Brain Eating Amoeba
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The amoeba is branching out from lakes and is now infecting home water systems in the south. A Louisianna news outlet is reporting that the state is warning people not to use a traditional fresh water remedy to treat sinus problems, after several people died from spraying infected water into their nostrils.
Two cases of people in Louisiana who died after contracting “brain-eating amoeba” infections from their own household water systems are prompting health officials to warn about a popular home remedy for treating sinus problems and allergies.
People who use neti pots to irrigate their nasal passages and sinuses should use only water that has been boiled, filtered or distilled, said the researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who investigated the unrelated cases, which occurred months apart in 2011 in different parts of Louisiana. READ MORE HERE
I say a video several years ago on a fireman who contracted it and it was really the most pernicious thing I have ever observed. The poor guy suffered greatly over a period of time and it was so sad to see such extreme suffering.
I’m pretty sure the bs fad “neti pots,” cheered on as “natural” and “ancient wisdom” by people like yourself are to blame. What’s with the spin?