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6th December 2018 15:29
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Brain Eating Amoeba Alert - Seattle Water supply (historical)
December 6, 2018 is the article, not the incident.
The study finally came out - something is letting brain eating amoeba's into Seattle's water supply.
The study was authored by Swedish doctors and researchers who worked on her case, including Cobbs. The publication doesn’t identify the victim.
The woman’s infection is the second ever reported in Seattle — the first came in 2013 — but the first fatality to be caused by it. In 1990, researchers first became aware that this type of amoeba can cause disease in people, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases in November. That report found there have been 109 cases of the amoeba reported in the U.S. between 1974 and 2016. Ninety percent of those cases were fatal.
Researchers said the woman likely contracted the amoebas by using tap water to fill a neti pot, rather than using saline or sterile water. The organisms entered her brain after the water reached nerves in her upper nasal cavity. She was 69.
“When I operated on this lady, a section of her brain about the size of a golf ball was bloody mush,” Dr. Charles Cobbs, neurosurgeon at Swedish, said in a phone interview. “There were these amoeba all over the place just eating brain cells. We didn’t have any clue what was going on, but when we got the actual tissue we could see it was the amoeba.”
The woman died a month later from the rare organisms that entered her brain after being injected into her nasal cavity by way of a neti pot, a teapot-shaped product used to rinse out the sinuses and nasal cavity, according to a case study recently published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Don't irrigate your nasal cavity with tap water.
ref: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...sible-repeats/
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6th December 2018 16:09
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Re: Brain Eating Amoeba Alert - Seattle Water supply (historical)
If you have gotten fresh water (not sterilized or sterilized saline) up your nose, be aware of symptoms. In the case of the woman described above, the first sign was a "red nose" appearance, commonly described as rosacea - she was misdiagnosed with that condition. The particular amoeba strain is known as a slow growing version.. Balamuthia mandrillaris is the name.
This type of amoeba moves more slowly and can take weeks or months to cause death. The other slow-acting amoeba is called Acanthamoeba spp.
Naegleria fowleri is the most documented, Cope said, because it acts quickly, causing an infection that leads to death in just a few days. New Jersey health officials linked a man’s death to N. fowleri in October. He was believed to have gotten infected while surfing in an indoor water park in Texas. N. fowleri is present in Puget Sound waters and other freshwater sources.
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6th December 2018 16:16
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