Braaaaaaaiiiiiiins....

[tikistitch]

Brain-Eating Amoeba Kills Arizona Boy

PHOENIX -- A 14-year-old Lake Havasu boy has become the sixth victim to die nationwide this year of a microscopic organism that attacks the body through the nasal cavity, quickly eating its way to the brain....

According to the Centers For Disease Control, Naegleria infected 23 people from 1995 to 2004. This year health officials said they've noticed a spike in cases, with six Naegleria-related cases so far -- all of them fatal.

Can we just say, ew?

Such attacks are extremely rare, though some health officials have put their communities on high alert, telling people to stay away from warm, standing water.

And zombies! Stay away from warm, standing zombies!!

Via the ever cheerful Warren Ellis.

Comments

[domestic-wolf.livejournal.com]

Guess we know where the government dumped all their 2-4-5 Trioxin surplus.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't Trioxin kill the amoebae? Unless...it caused them to mutate into horrible brain-eating killer amoebae!!!!

[jabberwockypie.livejournal.com]

I'm going to work horrible brain-eating killer amoebae into as many conversations as possible today.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I one thing to say: Braaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiinnnnnns! Hmm, tasty, tasty brains.