comment: >
  
  Put this one next years Bingo card please.
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. >
  
  so grateful for intelligent, educated and knowledgable people who can, in times like these, defuse my absolute panic caused by this type of irresponsible sensational garbage news. Thank you so much for this. >
  
  Wait until you hear about all the parasites you can get walking barefoot >
  
  Necator americanus (and other hookworms) will penetrate through the foot, travel through the bloodstream and then penetrate blood vessels to gain access to the lungs, then travel up the airway until you cough it up and swallow it, allowing access to the GI tract. 
  Fun stuff. >
  
  A lot of people don’t realize how prevalent hookworm really is.  It’s absurdly easy to get if you walk barefoot regularly. >
  
  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. >
  
  Nah.  Fatal familial insomnia for the true terror touch.  Rare, but terrifying.
  Prions are freaking scary. >
  
  Well, it looks like I won't be going swimming in warm stagnant water ever again. >
  
  Happens frequently in Texas and several other states in USA. Carolinas ,I've lost track. >
  
  I wouldn’t say frequently…but it does happen a couple times per year it seems. >
  
  These amoebas are no joke and can be found in waters in North America.   Even areas in Yellowstone have them. >
  
  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. >
  
  Don’t be stupid while swimming.  And maybe wear nose plugs. >
  
  "If you see an amoeba, swim away from it!"  
  - This clown on Reddit. >
  
  You’d need phenomenal eyes for that.  The kind with microscopes built in.  Just don’t go diving headfirst or stirring up the bottom-  you’ll be fine.   There’s a reason the great majority of non neti pot related cases are kids- adults tend to be calmer in the water. >
  
  Welcome to the club we’ve had them in water parks here, and idiots using neti pots with tap water >
  
  God sure did create some fun ways for his children to die >
  
  Free-will, amiright? >
  
  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 a meba, and I show a bullet. >
  
  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. >
  
  Brain eating amoeba’s…. Well now. >
  
  I've seen reports before of people who ate freshwater sashimi with parasites in them and got parasites in their brains. >
  
  That's something else. >
  
  This occurs virtually everywhere in the world, so why is the headline implying this is a new phenomenon? Fear mongering, plain and simple. >
  
  First confirmed case in a new geographic location is news because this amoeba requires water above a certain temperature. 
  It is notable if it is moving north. >
  
  Water is getting warmer in Korea, I’m guessing. >
  
  Anyone know of a resource that gives scale context to pre-internet days before we saw everything everywhere?  Like, how often where new diseases scary bacteria cropping up in the 90s?
  I see this articles and I am like “oh shit, this is scary?”  But I also know pre-internet this story would have never crossed my path, so very possible this is the nature of things.  Disease flare up potentially all the time but rarely blow up.
  I feel like these days we might be falling globally into the “crime is high” fallacy but instead regarding Armageddon. >
  
  This isn’t new.  It’s just the first time it’s in South Korea.  The us has had it since the 1960s.  In that time there have been ~200 cases. >
  
  2022 bingo card is still growing, I’ve dealt with flesh eating bacteria(necrotizing fasciitis) before but this would be bad >
  
  Those little fellas would starve if they only feasted on politicians >
  
  Articles like this make me wonder. Is it possible that we'll ever see a pandemic-level outbreak of some horrifying virus that will just wreak absolute havoc and terror on the world? I mean imagine a virus with symptoms of pure agony, maybe a 75% death rate, tearing through our population. Would we even try to fight it? Would it end our civilization as we know it? Could we ever be ready?