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Date:         Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:57:46 -0600
Reply-To:     Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: brain-eating
Comments: To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <46FFEE2F.9080409@charter.net>
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In other words, I guess John is saying, don't miss Buses By The Bridge in Lake Havasu in January just because of some little amoeba scare story?

grin,

Tom B.-if you don't kill it there, you have to kill it at home?

On Sep 30, 2007, at 12:42 PM, John Rodgers wrote:

> Sam, > > My 88' GL doesn't swim either - but I do. So the question I have to > ask > every time I go out into wild waters - beyond my hot tub or swimming > pool - is what is in those waters that might want to eat me? It is a > very fair question, since wild waters everywhere in the world support > all kinds of wild life - from microbes to sharks - and in many cases > neither are picky about what - or who - is for dinner! > > In Alaska waters you can get attacked by the larvae of a little > critter > whose life cycle includes snails and duck poop. And we got lots of > both > up there. The larvae get confused, think you are a snail and try to > burrow into you through the skin. Creates an awful itch - but I never > heard of any one dying from it, but I wouldn't want to take the chance > and be first. > > In waters in South America snails carry critters called liver flukes > that burrow into you, find a home in your liver, and cause you to > swell > horribly. > > In Africa there is a little beastie called a cyclops that lives in the > water of rivers and eats the eggs of certain parasitic worms. When > someone drinks the water, the cyclops is ingested, and in the > digestive > tract this little larvae comes crawling out of the now being digested > cyclops, burrows through your gut and makes his way to the arms and > legs > just above the hands and feet. It makes a little hole in the skin, > and > every time it senses water, it pokes it little tail out and squirts > eggs > into the water which the cyclops eats, and the cycle begins again. > They > treat this thing by teasing it with water to stick it's tail out, > then > a string is tied to the tail and the other end of the string is > tied to > a stick. Each day, that stick is tightened just a fraction, keeping > tension on the worm. Eventually he is pulled from the body. > > Another little water borne beastie enters the body and makes his > way to > the white of the eye. He can often be seen coiled up in the white > of the > eye next to the iris. Dunno what they do for him. > > In South America you can - in the water - get eaten by red bellied > piranha or have your bodily orifices probed by spikey cannarou - very > painful to remove as I understand. > > Lots of nasties live in the water. Remember the old movie > advertisement > "Don't Go Near the Water" - well, there are more reasons than one. > > Regards, > > > > > > Sam Conant wrote: >> Whoops! My 84 Westy doesn't swim. >> SamC >> >> -------------- Original message -------------- >> From: Mike Riley <mkriley@FUSE.NET> >> >> >>> this article was full of sensationalism and wrong facts. >>> >>> My mother did a lot of the early work on this at the epa, >>> it is called parasitic encephalitis, the ameoba just reproduces >>> untill it >>> physicially >>> blocks the blood flow. It can be cured with antibiotics if it is >>> properly >>> diagnosed in time. >>> mike >>> >> >> >>


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