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  That's something else.
context: This amoeba only infects through the olfactory receptors in the nose, making ingestion a practically impossible method of infection, as the amoeba would have to travel through the nasopharynx all the way to the olfactory receptors for no reason and then invade. This amoeba is not specialized for pathogenicity, and is only able to infect the brain tissue. There needs to be a sufficiently warm freshwater pool that is infected, and you have to get water so far up your nose that amoeba bump into your olfactory bulb. This is why cases are extremely rare. >
  
  No aggressively snorting random lake water, got it. Thank you for this info! Makes me and my single brain cell feel better >
  
  Wtf are we supposed to do in Florida now >
  
  You know what, just keep doing what you’re doing. I heard it’s fine. >
  
  From article - "Although the KDCA has not yet identified the precise method of transmission, it has highlighted that the two main sources of infection are swimming in contaminated water and nasal rinsing with infected water." 
  From thinking about water scarcity in areas to flooding in other areas  and then to brain eating organisms lurking in it, water just continues to have a moment. Hope we're all paying attention >
  
  Mass scale water desalination becomes more critical by the day. >
  
  Curious why desalination would help? This is a fresh water species so that would give it more environments to live in. Unless I’m misinterpreting you >
  
  But they would be open bodies of fresh water and all fresh water created through desalination ends up immediately in a controlled and regulated water system until it makes its way to users. Hence little to (and more plausible) no extra space for brain-eaters via mass application of desalination. >
  
  This species infects by people swimming in waters with the amoeba in or people spraying the water up their nose. If desalinated water is entering a closed system until it reaches the user, unless that water is then being used to swim in, replacing swims in contaminated fresh water (or replacing contaminated water people are putting up their nose), I’m not sure it would help. This sounds more like an educational issue rather than a technological one. I mean unless in Thailand the water the guy was bathing/showering in was contaminated in which case yea treating the municipal water supply would help (although not sure desalination of the already contaminated water supply would be the right treatment, but still)
  Edit: maybe Thailand doesn’t have clean municipal water and is using dirty ground water as someone suggested, in which case yea any way of making a clean water supply would work. I assumed it was caught by the guy swimming in fresh water, but it might not be that. You don’t get infected from drinking water with this amoeba in, so it’d have to be in water used for ablutions or swimming >
  
  I still think your missing the whoosh >
  
  I reckon so too. Wanna dewoosh me? >
  
  Sometimes I feel like I'm stuck in a game of Sim City >
  
  *Plague Inc. >
  
  Pay-to-plague.  This timeline continues to surprise. >
  
  Prions called, they want their legitimate fear mongering back >
  
  You just had to mention them, didn't you. >
  
  Something something rabies. >
  
  god dammit, every time I forget about this I end up stumbling across a news article about it.
  Well, there goes Summer 2023 of fun lake time. >
  
  You're roughly 1000-2000 times more likely to drown than from a brain eating amoeba. >
  
  I had amoeba in my gut from drinking shitty tap water that was served to me 20 years ago. The worst stomach aches imaginable all day long and no farting unless you wanted to shit your pants. Poop was all weird sticky and spackly too. The more you know, you're welcome. >
  
  That would have been a different amoeba than the brain eating one. The brain eating amoeba is fully safe to ingest. The way it kills you is if it gets way up in your nasal cavity, like if you do a cannonball and don't cover your nose in a warm lake. >
  
  Well, it looks like I won't be going swimming in warm stagnant water ever again. >
  
  Brain eating amoeba’s…. Well now. >
  
  Happens frequently in Texas and several other states in USA. Carolinas ,I've lost track. >
  
  No risk to Americans. It only eats brains. >
  
  If it does not eat us because of our brains then whycome is if we be ok? Show me ameba, and I show bullets. >
  
  It was that simple.  Just shoot the disease.  People been suffering all this time when all they needed was a gun all along and some micro-bullets.  Pew pew!  Screw you covid, I mean amoeba. >
  
  God sure did create some fun ways for his children to die >
  
  Free-will, amiright? >
  
  I've seen reports before of people who ate freshwater sashimi with parasites in them and got parasites in their brains.