Brain-Eating Amoebas

[randbot]

Heard about this on the Kevin Smith SModcast. Lisa & Greg, sounds like you picked a great time to get the hell out of AZ: Lake Havasu teen 6th person this year killed by brain-eating amoeba

Comments

[gregvaneekhout]

Teach me to dump my Seamonkeys in Havasu.

[dustchick]

I just like the advice to not dive without plugging your nose. Would that make me feel safer to swim with the killer amoebas? I don't think so!

[colleenky]

In a previous life, when I was living at the co-op near UCLA, one of my roommates was working on her master's in epidemiology. She came across this in one of her text books. Basically, the amoeba eat the brain and the skull becomes filled with their excrement (not kidding). It gives new meaning to the term "shit for brains."