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    'Brain eating' amoeba....

    Ok, I have heard of 'flesh eatting' disease, but this is too, too much. 6 die from brain-eating amoeba in lakes - Yahoo! News
    What next? And it seems to hit males more often?

    'Cat'

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    Re: 'Brain eating' amoeba....

    Yech, i remember seeing something like this on discovery channel. The person they were interviewing said her symptoms were headaches and dizzyness.

    Made me think of headaches in a different light. :stone
    Marie, RN in O.R, pursuing BSN, semester ? of ?

    Supposedly 8 out of 10 people suffer from hemorrhoids. Does that mean that the other 2 people enjoy them???:confused:

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    Re: 'Brain eating' amoeba....

    i work in a small hospital in the southwest and , yes its true , brain eating ameobas that work their way to the brain and cause hemorrage . the latest victim was a 14 yr. old boy, about 6 weeks ago ,who came into our er . we shipped him to a level 1 trauma and he was dead some 6 - 8 hours later . the ameoba was suspect to have come from our lake here in our little town .

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