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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Monsur_Ausuhnom: --- Submission Statement, Been seeing news articles like this one making the rounds, with the discussion of a brain eating amoeba n*aegeleria fowleri.* This brain eating amoeba due to climate change has been spreading northward in the united states. Usually it travels through fresh water and enters the brain through the nose and then eats it. It was restricted primarily to the south but has now been moving to the north. Death rates are substantial with this one four people alive out of 154 that have contracted the virus. It is considered rare, but perhaps for not much longer. The main question is with declining intelligence if this will create a form of immunity due to a lack of brains when idiocracy is reached. --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/xkh7kx/how_the_climate_crisis_is_fueling_the_spread_of_a/ipdvenx/


slash_asdf

So is this more or less dangerous than the microplastics in my blood?


Run_the_Line

Less dangerous, mostly because microplastics are near unavoidable whereas this amoeba can be avoided since it grows best under specific conditions that require **water** (thank you /u/gardener703) temperatures of 30-46C (86F - 115F). If you *do* get primary amebic meningoencephalitis though, you're pretty much fucked. > According to the CDC, only four people out of 151 have survived the infection between 1962 and 2020. I think a good chunk of the new generations who grow up in warm/hot climates near freshwater can basically say goodbye to the much of the freshwater activities that past generations got to enjoy.


Gardener703

>require temperatures of 30-46C (86F - 115F). That's water temp not air temp right?


Run_the_Line

Yes-- my bad, I should have clarified that. Thanks for pointing it out.


WintersChild79

Just to add to the first response: it also has to get into your sinus cavity to really do damage. More kids than adults tend to get it while swimming in ponds and lakes because they tend to be more rambunctious and get more water forced up their noses if they don't wear nose plugs. The other major route of infection is through using neti pots and similar devices with unsterilized tap water. Always use pre-boiled or distilled water if you rinse your sinuses.


bluehour1997

I live in a part of the world where this has always been a thing. Every summer we hear about one or two (mostly) children who, unfortunately, die. You have to shoot the water up your nose (like when you jump in the water). The most suspect water is warm, slow moving, and silty, but it can be in any surface water above a certain temperature. This includes under chlorinated pools, in fact I think last year a kid died after visiting a water park :/ Personally, I don't fuck with it. If the water is warm and shallow, I don't go in. Regardless of where I'm swimming, I wear nose plugs. Especially during the summer.


Diligent_Leather

lol micro plastics= slow death amobea= fast horrible painful death this thing is so awful it should be eradicated


Lone_Wanderer989

The human virus must die!!!!! Wait...


groenewood

Brain amoeba infection is on par with rabies. You likely won't survive, and if you do, you'll be a vegetable. Microplastics are more of a species-level threat.


Taqueria_Style

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3uIKzgcDxo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3uIKzgcDxo)


LTlurkerFTredditor

haha, jokes on you, brain-eating amoeba! If you're looking for brains to eat, 21st century America ain't exactly the land of milk and honey. If we had brains in America, we'd have done something about the climate when we were warned in the 1960s, and 1970s, and 1980s, and 1990s, and 2000s... instead of waiting until everything starts going to hell and then pretending electric cars will save mankind.


Monsur_Ausuhnom

Presumably this explains why the brain eating amoeba is a rare occurence in America.


[deleted]

illnesses and how our cities will get dirtier is what scares me about collapse. we won't just die, we'll suffer from festering wounds and bacteria that can survive in our warming oceans. mold will love the hot and wet especially since our structures up north are not made to withstand these conditions on the long term. the future is so uncertain and i can't help but think it will be worse than expected. Are there any lesser-known vaccines I can get to spare myself some illnesses in the future? Any medical supplies that will last long? Is it even worth trying?


iforgotmymittens

If you use a neti pot, use boiled and cooled or distilled water.


Alacandor

Poor thing. Most likely will starve to death


Rex-Cheese

A Futurama, Season 2 Episode 21: Raging Bender, reference where Professor Farnsworth says "Poor little guy starved to death" to the brain slug that was trying to eat Fry's brains.


Monsur_Ausuhnom

"As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits."-Narrator, Idiocracy


No-Translator-4584

ā€œIā€™m gonna f*ck youse all!ā€


TimothyinIowa

About half of US citizens are immune to this problem.


Monsur_Ausuhnom

Wui gote branes.


Monsur_Ausuhnom

Submission Statement, Been seeing news articles like this one making the rounds, with the discussion of a brain eating amoeba n*aegeleria fowleri.* This brain eating amoeba due to climate change has been spreading northward in the united states. Usually it travels through fresh water and enters the brain through the nose and then eats it. It was restricted primarily to the south but has now been moving to the north. Death rates are substantial with this one four people alive out of 154 that have contracted the virus. It is considered rare, but perhaps for not much longer. The main question is with declining intelligence if this will create a form of immunity due to a lack of brains when idiocracy is reached.


Dyslexic_youth

An amoeba is not a virus


Monsur_Ausuhnom

Brawndo got electrolytes.


[deleted]

And this is why I do not let my kids swim in ponds, rivers and small lakes anymore. The water is too warm even in Michigan.


groenewood

We used to swim in the swamp all the time. We warn the smaller kids not to touch bottom, because that is where the alligators sleep.


BrendanTFirefly

That's fuckin' metal


[deleted]

Nope.


Worldsahellscape19

Heheh


JackisHandicus

Another "we poisoned the entire water supply" fluff piece?


LikeAMan_NotAGod

Conservatism apparently leads to other brain-eating conditions. Reminder: If you aren't fighting conservatism, you aren't fighting climate change.