The brain eating amoeba is called Naegleria Fowleri. Usually people come into contact with the amoeba in warm lakes, by getting water in their ears and up their nose.
2003 Update of speech by Robert Laing at the National Convention of Clean-Flo Dealers, Orlando Florida, 1980. Copyright 1980, 2003 Introduction: I asked this question twenty-three years ago in 1980, when I conducted this study. I am asking it again now, because almost every lake, river and reservoir in the world is much more polluted today than it was then. Many lakes had a 5 – 35 percent reduction in phosphorus and nitrogen since 1980 as a result of nutrient diversion or abatement. This is... Read Full Story
The CDC warns families to take precautions.
A 9-year-old California boy died last weekend as a result of a brain-eating amoeba that health officials believe he contracted while swimming. The boy, who has not been
identified, is from Lake Elsinore and may have ingested the amoeba while swimming in a lake of the same name. Six young men, age 10 to 22, also died last year after swimming in lakes or pools infested with a brain-eating amoeba, the CDC reports.
According to WebMD, all six of the... Read Full Story
I've avoided talking about the flap over Capehart. I thought I had nothing new to add to the topic. I was thinking this week I would instead talk about brain-eating amoeba. There are few concerns I have that are more pressing to me than my concern that brain-eating amoeba not invade my nostrils and eat my brain, starting with my olfactory nerve. Ordinarily what I write here at most mildly amuses a few people for four or five minutes and then gets forgotten and ignored. For example, if I say... Read Full Story
ntroduction: I asked this question twenty-three years ago in 1980, when I conducted this study. I am asking it again now, because almost every lake, river and reservoir in the world is much more polluted today than it was then. Many lakes had a 5 – 35 percent reduction in phosphorus and nitrogen since 1980 as a result of nutrient diversion or abatement. This is only a small percentage of over 600,000 polluted lakes in the United States today. These treated lakes and all non-treated lakes... Read Full Story
There is a brain-eating amoeba that killed 6 people last year in the United States. The amoeba is called Naegleria fowleri and is found around the world. It lives in lake water and soil. This killer amoeba enters the body though the nose of swimmers and destroys tissue on it’s way to the brain were it feeds on brain cells. Naegleria fowleri kills nearly every person it infects. So far no cure has been discovered for this infection. When infected most people die within 2 weeks. Anyway thanks... Read Full Story
