Brain Eating Amoeba (by getting water up your nose)

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[darkscienceyt]

As for the video cutting short, I was flagged with a copyright claim. I allowed YT to splice out the end to resolve the copyright. About 10 seconds was spliced out.

[TheJoker-mwjo]

Love how there is literal jazz music playing while it talks about you dying by being eaten alive in your brain. One of them classics?

[benjackson]

Ugh that's so scary, this just shows why water purification is so important and the people who do those jobs are seriously a necessity.

[pieterpennings]

No one talks about the video cutting out abruptly?

[extraterrestrialghostwrite]

What a nice swim in my local river. I sure am excited to see the video that one of my favorite youtubers uploaded

[d.g]

Lol two weeks ago i was at a freshwater lake, and i accidentally got tons of water up my nose bc i miscalculated the depth while jumping.
After that i was a bit afraid, but you dont have to be.
Here are some things that are important if you stress about having amoebas eating your brain:
- all documented cases of this infection was in children below 16. Thats bc the amoeba has to literally eat its way to the brain from the nose, and as you grow up the tissue there gets harder to "eat through".
- infections are incredibly rare! Here in hungary the lake were i swam gets literally millions of ppl in it every week during summertime, yet no infections were ever recorded since we know about this amoeba.

[NorCalark]

I actually went to a funeral last summer for a friend who died from this. He got it from using those nedi-pods for your sinuses. It went from thinking he had heat exhaustion on friday at work being flown to another facility that night, having neuro surgery then next day and having to pull the plug on a Sunday.

[jaejaestudy]

i shouldn’t have watched this before going to sleep…

[Nerdykid]

I love the calm cafe jazz in the background as you describe what’s probably the most horrifying thing that can happen to a human being

[blubglub]

"I've had a brain eating amoeba once. Poor fella died of hungry."
-internet man i forgot the name of

[greenimpencilus]

Me: gets out of shower and checks phone
"Oh sweet, Questions for Science has uploaded a new video."

[Max-ejpe]

Me who sorts tap water EVERY SINGLE DAY to clear the boggers out of my nose...

[NSLikeableHuman]

I once got water forcefully into my nose when I did a wrong move whilst sliding down a pool slide. I still vividly remember the days-long acute sinusitis from that episode, but that’s still nothing compared to whatever horrors this amoeba might’ve done. Good thing pools have chlorinated water!

[apantisit]

I love how you explain things with the actual biologic mechanism of it.

[deminidze]

Poor dude vicious amoebas got em amidst the video ...

[lymnnphatic]

what ive realized as a premed student who have studied parasitology, life is tenfold scarier when ure constantly aware

[fdlg_]

Actually 2 days ago I was showering my head when suddenly some of the water got in my nose. Since my head was upside down the water got pretty far back in my nose that it started to hurt a little bit. Now I’m scared as f*ck. Goodbye cruel world.

[cheezmuffintv]

Video: Brain eating amoeba
Music: *calm music plays aggressively*

[alvesmahomed]

Suddenly, the brain eating amoeba evolves and can now survive salt and chlorinated water.

[HalalHistory]

I literally got warm tap water up my nose today, and I’m watching this at night