Brain-eating amoeba suspected in SW Indiana death

[bassmanic1]

Ran across this on 14news.com
http://www.14news.com/story/19453358...-indiana-death
seems a man died Aug. 7, just over three weeks after a family outing at West Boggs Lake . Anybody know about this ?

[GeoFisher]

Ran across this on 14news.com
http://www.14news.com/story/19453358...-indiana-death
seems a man died Aug. 7, just over three weeks after a family outing at West Boggs Lake . Anybody know about this ?

This is the second case in the last couple years from West Boggs.......there is something DEFINITELY in the water.

Later,

Geo

[fishNnut]

Read it in the paper yesterday. I feel sorry for the mans family. I have family within miles of boggs and they only use the lake a couple of times a summer.

Maybe when they drain it next year they will just add 9 holes to the golf course.

[Moveon]

What a tragic mess. There is more to this story some where. Amoebas are in all lake water but this particular species is very different.

I can still remember looking at Amoeba under the microscope in Grade School Science class. They are fascinating creatures but I'd rather not get one inside my brain. Yuck!

Where is Mike Axsome (sp?) these days?

Read it in the paper yesterday. I feel sorry for the mans family. I have family within miles of boggs and they only use the lake a couple of times a summer.

Maybe when they drain it next year they will just add 9 holes to the golf course.

[quack]

seems to me somebody ought to be answering a lot of questions did he get it from the fish he ate out of boggs or was he swimming or just camping???makes me not want to go there

[LJP]

He was swimming, trying to teach his daughter to swim.

[Moveon]

That's what USEPA and the Dept of Health would call "Full Body Contact" and that should be avoided in areas that are known to be contaminated with these Amoebas.

There are rare but can be fatal as this story displays.

I'd think that fishing the lake would be ok as long as you don't drink any of the lake water. When you are swimming you are more likley to gup down some water and pick up these Amoebas in your mouth.

He was swimming, trying to teach his daughter to swim.

[GeoFisher]

Here is a good link about it..........

It has nothing to do with "drinking the water".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary...goencephalitis

[fishNnut]

"... and enters the central nervous system after insufflation of infected water by attaching itself to the olfactory nerve.[3"

Much more likely to occur while swimming rather than fishing.

I think I'll skip Boggs for both...forever.

[GeoFisher]

"... and enters the central nervous system after insufflation of infected water by attaching itself to the olfactory nerve.[3"

Much more likely to occur while swimming rather than fishing.

I think I'll skip Boggs for both...forever.

Yep.

[Moveon]

If you end up drinking water while swimming it usually also goes up your nose. So what I was saying is that it's more likely he got it from swimming which was my main point George. And if you know the anatomy of humans you would know the nose and mouth are connected via the nasal pharangeal passage. So it really doesn't matter if it goes into the mouth and up into the nose or directly into the nose. Either way it can infect you.

Here is a good link about it..........

It has nothing to do with "drinking the water".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary...goencephalitis

[GeoFisher]

If you end up drinking water while swimming it usually also goes up your nose. So what I was saying is that it's more likely he got it from swimming which was my main point George. And if you know the anatomy of humans you would know the nose and mouth are connected via the nasal pharangeal passage. So it really doesn't matter if it goes into the mouth and up into the nose or directly into the nose. Either way it can infect you.

My point was that a person swimming who doesn't gulp down a mouthful of water can also get this problem....I could see where someone could read your initial post about swimming and think that if they are "careful" and don't swallow any of the water, that they are safe. I don't think so.

That is all.

Yea Moveon. I do know a little about anatomy....

Later,

Geo.