Brain eating bug.

[zeitghost]

Saw this advertised on Discovery in the Radio Times.

Monsters Inside Me: Brain Eating Amoeba : Video : Discovery Health

Glad I didn't watch it.



http://animal.discovery.com/inverteb...eba-naegleria/

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water.

It's glacial lakes for me from now on.

[xoggoth]

There's maggots that grow behind your eyeballs too.

[Doggy Styles]

I remember a Tales of the Unexpected where someone had an earwig burrow right through their brain.

[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.

[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!

[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.

[EternalOptimist]

I had this mate right.




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

[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???

[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

[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