Brain Eating Amoeba (Naegleria fowleri)

Brain eating amoeba-Naegleria fowleri is a scary but interesting parasite.
What is this amoeba?
• Where do you think it was first discovered? Absolutely! Unsurprisingly, it was first discovered in Australia in 1965. But it’s believed to have evolved in the United States.
• Its scientific name is Naegleria Fowleri
• It loves warm water. It can survive in water as hot as 113 degrees Fahrenheit.
• It is found in warm places such as warm lakes, mud puddles, warm –slow flowing rivers, untreated swimming pools and even in soil.
• However it can’t live in salt water or in properly treated swimming pools.
• Naegleria floweri normally eats bacteria. But if it gets into humans through the nose, it uses the brain as a food source.
• Activities like diving, water sports, water skiing, in which water is forced in to the nose, increased the risk of infection.
• Fortunately it doesn’t transmit from an infected person to another person.
Now you might be thinking, how the hell this amoeba finds its way to the brain!
Well it is just smart, you know! It has a good understanding of the human anatomy!
Jokes aside, it is attracted by the chemicals secreted by the nerve cells of the olfactory nerve. It travels through the olfactory nerve and enters the frontal lobe of the brain.

Alright! If you have the “medial students” syndrome, you should be thinking “Oh no! I dived in the swimming pool, once, some time ago”. Relax! This condition is very rare, it occurs from 0 -8 times per year, almost always from July to September.
It takes two – 15 days for symptoms to appear after the amoeba enters the nose. Average time to death is 5.3 days from the onset of symptoms. Symptoms are fever, headache, stiff neck and sometimes seizures.
Unfortunately, there’s no good treatment option yet for the disease. Some drugs are able to kill the amoeba in test tubes. But even when treated with these drugs, only a very few patients survive.
How can you Protect yourself from Brain-Eating Amoeba?
• Avoid water sports in warm still water during the months from July to September.
• It's also a good idea to avoid stirring up mud while taking part in such activities.
• If you ever decide to cleanse your nostrils, be sure to use distilled water and not tap water.

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[holychen]

I miss 2 minutes ago when my brain didn't know what this was

[yes]

Fun fact,

Years ago, I watched this then I became so paranoid that I avoided water most of the time.

[simulprod]

I thought I was watching The Infographics Show

[michaelatkin]

Great something else to set off my anxiety

[account-flxo]

I was worrying about swimming a few days ago when you said to stop worrying

[manahil.a.tanveer]

Why'd you have extremely hopeful Disney music playing while telling us there's no proper cure for this?

[AlexanderAlp]

I learned this amoeba 2 years ago, since then I have never been close to a river or lake, I am officially paranoid

[Nebulisuzer]

Brain eating amoeba: *enters a TikTokers body
Brain eating amoeba the next day: *dies of hunger

[KendlRecords]

The amoeba has been found in my cities water supply. Now we have to shower in a different city. 2020 sucks

[aneurysm]

I got some water up my nose from a slip n slide here in Texas, and now I’m feeling sinus pressure, and mucus drainage. I’m panicking (probably irrationally), but my mom is having the same symptoms despite not having touched water - which makes me think it’s a cold or something minor. I’m gonna see a doctor in a few days but I’m losing sleep over this fear. I know it’s not common.

Edit: it was just a cold!!! I’m alright. Reading my comment back now is making me laugh, because it really was super irrational. It’s a super rare bug to be infected by, so there’s really (and I can’t emphasize this enough) no reason to be scared of it so long as you don’t purposefully hop into warm lakes and start inhaling underwater constantly.

[Brucelee]

me too, i live in florida and my friends use to swim in lakes, dirty lakes and they still alive

[etherlords]

CDC just alerted for this in Florida! Good luck!

[subsWithnovideos-ibpq]

I’m not necessarily too worried now but It’s July and I went to the creek with my family and there’s this warm muddy still area where they could definitely survive. We swam in the cold flowing area but we kicked up a lot of the warm underwater mud. And I got a lot of cold water in my nose but now I’m a little paranoid and don’t want to go back.

[MikeOxsmall-fvqu]

“had a brain eating amoeba once. poor fella died of hungry”

[raptortime]

Just went swimming in a little pond today. Little got up my nose but not much. Wish me luck

[takeajokekid]

Who’s here after the confirmed case in Florida this morning?

[dovacatthe_dragonborn]

I tried to warn people about the amoeba, but they just laughed at me..
Well, not my fault if they die

[warsaw]

Just here to take the link to scare my Texan friend that’s experiencing a potential outbreak right now

[lovelymemo]

Brain eating amoeba: (exist)
Brain eating amoeba: (died of hunger)















If you know what i mean🙄

[hanselomolade]

Everyone *water can only drown u*
Ameoba:" I see u have no brains for me to eat: