To: radar101
We were in Florida last month and this was on the news. Killed a kid in the Orlando area. I had never heard of it before. Disturbing.
12 posted on
09/27/2007 5:30:07 AM PDT by
Hoodlum91
(I support global warming.)
To: Hoodlum91
You should see the frogs! 8 legs, etc.
20 posted on
09/27/2007 6:31:03 AM PDT by
Fawn
(http://www.brightlion.com/InHope/InHope_en.aspx)
To: Hoodlum91
We were in Florida last month and this was on the news.
But we're they "brain-eating" amoebas?
22 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: Hoodlum91
Family of second Florida victim looking to sue the gubermint for not issuing stern enough warnings, according to some news reports.
33 posted on
09/27/2007 7:35:54 AM PDT by
NonValueAdded
(Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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.
39 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)
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