Brain-eaating amoeba
While I was in Montana a story in a local paper caught my eye. ?Six dead from brain-eating amoeba?. The article was written by Chris Kahn of the AP. Turns out there is a killer amoeba living in lakes and it can enter the body through your nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die. The amoeba called Naegleria fowleri killed 23 people in the US from 1995 to 2004. The CDC knows of several hundred cases worldwide since it was discovered in Australia in the 1960?s. This year three people in Florida, two in Texas and one in Arizona died from this amoeba. It is a warm water amoeba so stays in the southern part of the US.
Anyone want to go swimming?
Larry
Organizations and clubs I belong to:
Fly Fishers International Life Member
FFI 1000 Stewards member
FFI Presidents Club
FFI Fly Tying Group Life Member
Washington State Council FFI
V.P. Membership
Alpine Fly Fishers Club
President & Newsletter Editor--The Dead Drift
North Idaho Fly Casters club