Brain-eating amoeba

When you bathe in the water, there's a nasty creature that might be swimming with you.

This invisible killer is called the Naegleria fowleri, the brain-eating amoeba.

Geez, I'm not even gonna try to pronounce that,

but you're telling me this thing feeds on brains? Let's just shorten it to N-fowlery.

The condition then becomes a dangerous disease, primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM.

In other words, your brain accidentally becomes food for the organism.

Thus, it's nicknamed brain-eating amoeba.

Oh, well, isn't that just great? Now I've got to make sure I stay away from anyone who's got headaches and neck pain or risk having my brain devoured?

The child most likely acquired the infection while swimming in Lake Clybourne located in Clybourne Parish shortly before her illness.

Now that brings the total cases of niglaria fowleri or aka the brain-eating amoeba, in Louisiana since 1937 to four cases.

Then, in late August, North Carolina health officials reported a case in a 17-year-old young man, and he passed away on August 31st.

Now, while the public health investigation does not conclusively determine where the teen was exposed, the findings suggest that a water feature located at a community-based organization in Durham, North Carolina, was the most likely source.

all right next thing we're going to go take a look at is we're going to go to pakistan now pakistan has really been a hotbed for naglaria fowleri in recent years but so far this year pakistan has only reported one confirmed case in 2026. now this single confirmed infection involved a 44 year old resident of karanji karachi who was admitted to a private hospital with severe symptoms and later passed away.

Now health officials noted that the patient had no recent history of recreational swimming, indicating that the infection was likely contracted through pipe tap water used during daily domestic activities or ritual ablution.

Karachi remains a primary hotspot for the brain-eating amoeba due to prolonged summer temperatures inadequate public water chlorination, and unregulated private water tankers.

Now, just to give you a feel for what's been going on in Pakistan, over the past 10 years, they've averaged between 5 and 20 cases of the parasite annually.

also how did his audition for ron weasley go in harry fire yeah

so that that was that was all of that all went well they said they were happy with the mc stuff and i didn't i didn't die from a brain eating amoeba no what did you

wear for the wedding

I just had to get the suit that me and Dan, his brother, had to wear the same one.

Stay away from them sausage dogs and sharks.

And don't be jumping in lakes.

Yes, and getting a brain eating amoeba.

But do make the wedding all about you.

just say it

on the street brain-eating amoeba oh boy yeah that's it and anyway it hurts if it goes up the nose each hits your brain and starts remodeling while it's in there the official name of it is a primary amoebic meniojosephalitis that's the street name for brain-eating amoeba There you go.

Because scientists occasionally tell the truth, apparently.

So Mom and Monica get on GoFundMe, and they start with a savage headache.