How to Survive a Brain-Eating Amoeba

Naegleria fowleri, better known as the brain-eating amoeba, is a microbe that lives in warmer fresh waters almost everywhere in the world. It can infect humans via the nose when we go for a casual swim. Unfortunately, tap water can also carry these vicious, hungry microbes. Can you get infected by drinking tap water? Can it attack you in a swimming pool? How many people have survived it?

00:00 How to Survive a Brain-Eating Amoeba
01:10 Hold Your Nose
01:44 Don’t Trust Swimming Pools
02:31 Don’t Touch the Bottom
02:57 Don’t Skip the Doc
03:33 Plan Your Trip

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[indigopeach]

Naegleria flowleri isn't the only species you need to worry about. Balamuthia mandrillaris and Acanthamoeba can be brain eaters too.

[SuperCommentRemoved]

How to survive brain eating amoeba?
- Become a flat earther so the amoeba will not detect that you have a brain.

[grandpa]

Here are to things you need to know

1. You will not get the amobea unless: water is squirted deep into your nose and you don't clear it, or if it is forcefully inhaled underwater as in a deep inhale similar to meditation.

2. As soon as symptoms appear your done there is no chance of survival it has a incubation period from 2 weeks to many years as the amoeba may become a cyst within the brain.

[Biologyman]

Don’t worry, even tho you have a high chance of dying, it’s not really that common. You are more likely to drown than get an Amoeba, plus it must go high up your nose which is very hard to happen and it needs to avoid your first line of the immune defenses

[astro_faze]

Had a brain amoeba once. Don't know why it's so hard to survive one of those. Poor fella died of hunger.

[MakennaWilson-hbpr]

*drinks tap water each day*

Me: "Oh shoot, I'm gonna die"
The amoeba: "Your chill don't worry"

[incognitonoctua]

the only way to survive is to never submerge your head to the water where there is brain eating bacteria but the question is ARE YOU GONNA SCOOP EVERY drop water in every swimming location just to identify wether it's safe to swim?

[coffeandmoney]

The chances of getting this amoeba are less than the chances of drowning.

[Itz._.Darshini]

This guy will never die
He literally knows everything

[kieezvy]

one of the reasons why I always plug my nose when I swim

[ki-pattao]

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[revengerlsc]

I got infected by a brain eating ameoba once.
Poor fella died out of hunger

[VergeCreates]

Well I’m too paranoid now I’m not swimming anymore

[tsarcan]

34 people got the infection between 2008-2017.

[seiiche]

3:00 I love how the doctor was noding his head like you did something wrong

[Octopuscoast]

I just discovered your channel ! Awesome. I love survival knowledge because I'm always in the outdoors.
Brain amoebas scare me to death ☠️.

[F_Editzs.]

I had brain eating amoeba, and i can say its easy, lil bro thought there was something up there, but he found nothing😂

[Fireybird]

Oh my god this sounds like aliens but i LOVE this channel

[TheCynicalCommentator]

“How do I survive a brain eating amoeba?”

“That’s the neat thing: you don’t.”

[kindred]

Next up: how to survive UV rays - stay inside your home forever