News Brain-Eating Amoeba Shows Up in Louisiana Tap Water

[brassmonkey]

A brain-eating amoeba that killed two people in two weeks ago has turned up in the water supply of a Louisiana county near New Orleans for the second time in two years.

The water supply of St. Bernard Parish (Louisiana counties are called parishes), which is located five miles outside of downtown New Orleans, is undergoing a 60-day chlorine ?burn? to eradicate Naegleria fowleri, the Louisiana Department of Heath and Hospitals announced.

Officials say the burn is being conducted ?out of caution,? adding that the tap water is safe to drink because you cannot become ill by drinking infected water. However, they warn that residents should avoid getting water in their noses because it can infect people via that route. It travels up the nose and into the brain, where it typically causes an infection of the lining around the brain (meningitis) and inflammation of the brain (encephalitis). Symptoms often include severe headaches, fever, and a stiff neck.

Infection with the amoeba is often deadly. A teenage boy died this month after developing an infection believed to have been caused by Naegleria fowleri that he came into contact with while swimming in a lake. Hunter A. Boutain, 14, died from primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a rare infection of the brain caused by the amoeba, just 48 hours after he went swimming in Minnesota?s Lake Minnewaska. He was hospitalized after his swim and was unresponsive hours later, The Associated Press reports.

https://www.yahoo.com/health/brain-e...170465647.html

[AntonMG]

Brain-eating....
Everyone's safe around here.

[L-Pink]

Originally Posted by AntonMG

Brain-eating....
Everyone's safe around here.

Huh? I don't get it ?

[brassmonkey]

skip the shower take a whores bath!

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

Huh? I don't get it ?

just came down off of bath salts

[MrBottomTooth]

They sure do exercise a lot of leeway with their news titles. I guess "brain-eating" sounds a lot better than "may cause meningitis".

[sperbonzo]

Turns out that this bacteria has been rampant in that area for 175 years....








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[blackmonsters]

Fuck, another excuse for me to bathe in beer.
I'll never be able to break the habit.

[Useless Warrior]

No way could anything that eats brains survive there. Louisiana is the safest place to be during a zombie apocalypse.

[pornmasta]

:wehateporn:

[SykkBoy]

That explains Bobby Jindal getting elected...

[2MuchMark]

I feel bad for people in Alabama. Not only do they have this crap in their water now, There's lots of Fracking Wells too. There was 2.9 Million gallons of oil spilled into a swap in November 2013, a huge one in the Mobil River in 2011, and a few other spills just outside the Alabama borders too. Not to mention a chemical spill in 2011 near Mobile, Alabama that still fowls the air. And then there's this:

there are nine coal-fired power plants located on seven of Alabama’s rivers: the Tennessee, Black Warrior, Locust Fork, Mulberry Fork, Coosa, Tombigbee, and Mobile Rivers. Adjacent to each of these plants are massive coal ash storage ponds containing a total of 24.1 billion gallons of coal ash, the waste left behind when coal is burned. Coal ash contains many toxic metals like mercury, lead, and selenium. According to a recent report by the Environmental Integrity Project, Alabama’s coal ash ponds receive more toxic metals than any other coal ash dumps in the nation. The majority of coal ash dump sites in the state are old, unlined, and only separated from our drinking water sources by earthen dams.

Just this Monday, a storm water pipe broke in Eden, North Carolina, spilling a reported 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash along with 27 million gallons of water into the Dan River. The ash was stored at one of Duke Energy’s retired coal plants in an unlined ash pond, similar to many of the coal ash ponds we have in Alabama.[i]

An accident away: Recent chemical spills raise safety questions for Alabama drinking water ? Alabama Rivers Alliance

[bronco67]

That explains Bobby Jindal.

[C H R I S]

Death watch!!!!

[clickhappy]

Fucking love my zero water. One of the best things I ever bought.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by clickhappy

Fucking love my zero water. One of the best things I ever bought. comes with a meter to test it

yeah but what about showering before seeing the alert on tv or hearing it on the radio??

[nico-t]

brassmonkey I am worried you've been drinking that water since you were born