to carry on in the vein of microscopic brain infesters, here’s some clips from a little story about Naegleria (i feel like this should be an x-files episode* or something….):
...thanks to the amoeba Naegleria that is often found in fun places to swim. it likes to destroy tissue on its way to your brain. that's where the feast really begins. mm-mm-mm. braaaaiiiinnnnsssssssssssss. wait, is it the zombie apocalypse already? need to prepare pronto!
anyhoo.
read up about Naegleria in the CDC factsheet. it likes to get in through your nose. think of THAT next time you go for a swim in your local freshwater lake or river. <shudder>
and check out these photos from Thomas Buckelew’s Parisitology Images.
i am both fascinated and repulsed. bugs in my brain, ewww!
[*I was later informed that this WAS in an X-Files episode. "Darkness Falls" (1x19) in which Spirit Lake is mentioned as a place where swimmers have been infected by brain-sucking amoeba.]
