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Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 9:15:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		PHOENIX - It sounds like science fiction but it’s true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.

Even though encounters with the microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare, it’s killed six boys and young men this year. The spike in cases has health officials concerned, and they are predicting more cases in the future.

“This is definitely something we need to track,” said Michael Beach, a specialist in recreational waterborne illnesses for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21034344

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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 9:19:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		Them evil AQ have already harvested these creatures and are adding them into nasal spray. I should really stop giving terrorists ideas.

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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 9:22:19 AM   
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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 9:22:37 AM   
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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 9:23:08 AM   
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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 9:24:08 AM   
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Are cholorinated swimming pools free of this amoeba?


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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 9:26:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was reading about this last night, ewwwww....
lakes and pool can have this, scary stuff for sure!


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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 9:31:41 AM   
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I'm selling a new nasal implant that filters out the deadly Microbe it's a bargain at £69.99. At this low price can you really afford not to have one? Flashy star Flashy star.
 
Fullcircle Org. Does not guarantee that every microbe will be caught by the nasal microbe filter.
 

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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 9:33:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		First thought.. 'Thank the goddess it's not my UM',
Second thought.. 'Thank the goddess it's in the US'
Third thought, on finding out it was bloody discovered in Aus! 'Does my UM have plans on swimming any time soon?'
 
So many nasty freaky lil things out there, people really are very vulnerable, for all our medical\scientific advances.

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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 9:52:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		This has been around for years but one thing I heard on the radio is that longer warmer periods from global warming are allowing this to spread. It's a scary death. People diagnosed with this often just went to the doctor because they lost their ability to smell. They feel fine but are told they are dead within a week. No less after a terrifying downward spiral of halucinations and madness. Yikes. Can't imagine a much worse way to go.

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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 9:56:58 AM   
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No less after a terrifying downward spiral of halucinations and madness. Yikes. Can't imagine a much worse way to go.


Dangling from a ski lift that your testicles have become frozen to and then falling to your death after a failure in shear of the scrotum?

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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 9:58:09 AM   
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No less after a terrifying downward spiral of halucinations and madness. Yikes. Can't imagine a much worse way to go.


Dangling from a ski lift that your testicles have become frozen to and then falling to your death after a failure in shear of the scrotum?


That's a close second.

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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 9:59:32 AM   
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ORIGINAL: FullCircle


I'm selling a new nasal implant that filters out the deadly Microbe it's a bargain at £69.99. At this low price can you really afford not to have one? Flashy star Flashy star.
 
Fullcircle Org. Does not guarantee that every microbe will be caught by the nasal microbe filter.
 


il take 44 of them. my credit card number is 8888888888888-09999-922290002020202020202020202 exp 9-99

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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 10:04:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yesss Sir let me process your order imedi…..

Oh you’re kidding me aren’t you? I thought I had a sale then. Poor old Gill never seals the deal. My wife has left me, I’m in debt and I bought a franchise in this Nose Filter thinking it would be my lucky break.

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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 12:59:35 PM   
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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 1:06:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		so, this brain eating amoeba gets past the secret service amoeba, and enters George Bush's cranium.

"shit" it thinks, "someone got here ahead of me"

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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 1:12:01 PM   
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Perhaps this explains the behavior of some of the posters we see around here.


I know what you mean. Apparently fashion sense is the first thing this little critter attacks.

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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 1:16:55 PM   
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I read that article and found it fascinating as I used to live 'on the lake' but still frequent favorite skinny dipping coves at the lake...it will give new meaning when I tell people to 'go jump in the lake' for  sure


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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 2:49:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		From what I got out of the article, chlorinated pools are safe.  The amoeba like really warm water, they usually get stirred up out of the muck on the bottoms of the lakes, and you have to actually suck a lot of water deep into your nose and sinus cavities.  They recommend using nose plugs if there's a question.  It sounds like just casual swimming, wading, or floating around is safe.  Just don't get water up your nose.

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RE: Brain-eating amoebas - 9/30/2007 3:01:19 PM   
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