Reply to: Brain eating bug.

[Sysman]

It's more likely that the croc gets you first

Or a hippo.

But where African water is concerned, Bilharzia isn't good for you either: Worms wriggling in your veins. You definitely don't fetch your own golf balls out of water hazards (that's what caddies are for).

[TimberWolf]

Lovely.

Almost as lovely as having one's brain consumed by an amoeba.

They are hard to kill too, when living in the eye:

Acanthamoeba

[MarillionFan]

You'll be ok. they go for the brain




just dont play with your prolapse when you are in the water, or AtW might home in on you

ftfy

[EternalOptimist]

Oh FFS. I'm supposed to be going there!!!

You'll be ok. they go for the brain




just dont play with your prolapse when you are in the water, or the @rse-amoebas might home in on you

[MarillionFan]

I thought it seemed familiar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Baths_(Bath)

Girl died of it in 1979.

Oh FFS. I'm supposed to be going there!!!

[TimberWolf]

I for one welcome our single celled, pseudopodia-bearing overlords.

Most of our ancestors probably looked like that.

[Zippy]

I'll tell you whats annoying. its the whole hypocrisy of the situation.

its ok for fishes to eat amoebas and for us to eat fish and chips. but as soon as the amoebas fight back, crawl into you lugs and start to eat your brain, its suddenly all wrong.

Its one law for the sentient multi-cellular advanced life forms and another for the single-celled bits of snot

I for one welcome our single celled, pseudopodia-bearing overlords.

[MaryPoppins]

WTF. NSFW. A bit odd that that one is head side out.

Botflies don't sound too pleasant either.

[EternalOptimist]

This story doesn't relate to horrible things that might befall you should you find 9 pieces of bacon???

I'll tell you whats annoying. its the whole hypocrisy of the situation.

its ok for fishes to eat amoebas and for us to eat fish and chips. but as soon as the amoebas fight back, crawl into you lugs and start to eat your brain, its suddenly all wrong.

Its one law for the sentient multi-cellular advanced life forms and another for the single-celled bits of snot

[AtW]

In Africa if you stand in some rivers to piss, there is a worm that is attracted to urine and will travel up it to its point of origin inside the body. ouch.

It's more likely that the croc gets you first

[norrahe]

I had this mate right.




no its too painful. i cant bear to talk about it.

This story doesn't relate to horrible things that might befall you should you find 9 pieces of bacon???

[EternalOptimist]

I had this mate right.




no its too painful. i cant bear to talk about it.

[TimberWolf]

There's a South American needle-shaped fish called the candiru that does the same.

and they're sods to remove, because they have sharp fins that hold them in place!

WTF. NSFW. A bit odd that that one is head side out.

Botflies don't sound too pleasant either.

[OwlHoot]

In Africa if you stand in some rivers to piss, there is a worm that is attracted to urine and will travel up it to its point of origin inside the body. ouch.

There's a South American needle-shaped fish called the candiru that does the same.

and they're sods to remove, because they have sharp fins that hold them in place!

[alreadypacked]

In Africa if you stand in some rivers to piss, there is a worm that is attracted to urine and will travel up it to its point of origin inside the body. ouch.