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Lake Havasu teen becomes sixth 2007 victim of brain-eating amoeba (NOT a joke)
Examiner ^
| 27 SEPT 2007
| CHRIS KAHN
Posted on 09/27/2007 5:06:32 AM PDT by radar101
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To: SampleMan
"In future decades, as temperatures rise, we'd expect to see more cases."
You can almost feel the Bush's Fault overtones seeping through.
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:35:26 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
To: Hoodlum91
We were in Florida last month and this was on the news.
But we're they "brain-eating" amoebas?
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:38:27 AM PDT
by
zencat
(The universe is not what it appears, nor is it something else.)
To: radar101
That’s some nasty stuff.
Poor kid.
To: radar101
Bad bugs in Lake Havasu...
The downstream bilge from Vegas??
Worth a wonder...
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:45:03 AM PDT
by
Wings-n-Wind
(The main things are the plain things!)
To: radar101
Michael Beach, a specialist in recreational water-born illnesses for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Was he destined for this career?
To: wolfcreek
I know I sure wasn’t tempted to go lake swimming this year in central Texas. This article is a lot more informative than anything I’ve read locally following the 2 deaths in Lake LBJ.
To: radar101
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:49:54 AM PDT
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(Reunite Gondwanaland!)
To: 1rudeboy
The "amoeba" as we call it, rarely strikes, but when it does its is deadly. There are some simple "amoeba" rules to follow. First don't swim in cloudy, muddy, slimy or other murky water - "You ain't no gator." Second, don't stir up the bottom silt and muck. Third, avoid the warm shallow water near the lake shore (This is why kids are so vulnerable). Most importantly, don't put your head under the water, but if you do, keep a positive lung pressure to push an air bubble out of your nose rather than to let the water seep into the nose. If you stay in the deep water your odds are much better.
To: ghostrider
Thanks for the positive suggestions. I train and swim in open water (state park lakes usually) and will adopt your recommendations.
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posted on
09/27/2007 7:04:15 AM PDT
by
trimom
To: radar101
Best to the family. I try not to imagine the difficulty they're going through here.
I am a bit surprised at the apparent lack of treatment options, effective or not.
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posted on
09/27/2007 7:05:43 AM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Pope to politicians: "(Do) not to allow children to be considered as a form of illness.")
To: radar101; neverdem
There have been a couple of cases from those swimming in the Tennessee River.
To: trimom
Problems are rare, but most folks have no idea that there is an Amoeba risk. Another elevated risk factor is late summer when the water is warmer.
To: Hoodlum91
Family of second Florida victim looking to sue the gubermint for not issuing stern enough warnings, according to some news reports.
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posted on
09/27/2007 7:35:54 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
To: 1rudeboy
“Thats it, Ive had it. Im moving to Greenland.”
Reminds me of a Vietnam vet that said he moved to Alaska to avoid
the creepy-crawlers (as he’d seen enough in Vietnam).
Moving to Greenland might be a good move; I saw a news report about
how tourism biz is thriving at one village there “because the ice
is melting”.
Of course, no mention about the Antarctic ice mass growing...
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posted on
09/27/2007 7:48:18 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: ZinGirl; Jagman
"In future decades, as temperatures rise, we'd expect to see more cases."Global Warming will EAT YOUR BRAIN
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posted on
09/27/2007 8:02:42 AM PDT
by
BOBTHENAILER
(One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
To: All
If this deadly, simple-celled organism that destroys the brains of our children hasn’t yet been named, I’d like to offer my suggestion: NEA.
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posted on
09/27/2007 8:02:47 AM PDT
by
DPMD
To: ghostrider
There is another point. These things don’t normally become active until the water temperature gets above 80 degrees, which in Florida usually means afternoons from June until late September. So in those times, swim in swimming pools or salt water, and for God’s sake do not wade and put your head under water swimming in that area!
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posted on
09/27/2007 8:05:41 AM PDT
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(IF TREASON IS THE QUESTION, THEN MOVEON.ORG IS THE ANSWER!)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Yes! I forgot to mention temperature which leads to an elevated risk in summer and especially in shallow lake shore water that is often luke warm.
To: Hoodlum91
Yeah -- the kid went for a swim in Lake Jessamine and died a few days later. It's actually got the triathlon folks in a tizzy, since most of our races have a lake swim portion (ocean swims get everyone freaked about sharks.) Last year it was gator attacks, though.
Such is the hysteria over ameobas down here, when I scratched my cornea a few weeks ago while in my gym's swimming pool, my eye doctor had me on a course of strong antibiotics to keep me from developing any amoebic infection -- even though I'd been swimming in a freaksomely chlorinated public pool. The paranoia is at a fever pitch right now.
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posted on
09/27/2007 9:30:52 AM PDT
by
RepoGirl
("Tom, I'm getting dead from you, but I'm not getting Un-dead..." -- Frasier Crane)
To: Obadiah
Sheesh, just the facts, leave out your personal political religion. He just noted that temperatures were expected to rise. That's a fact. He didn't insinuate the rise was man-made. That would be fiction.
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posted on
09/27/2007 9:36:30 AM PDT
by
BearCub
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