A bootlegger is a person who sells alcohol off hours. Orriginally a bootlegger was a person who smuggled contraband onto a ship in the long boots made of waxed leather used to keep dry when entering and exiting small boats used to get to and from a ship at anchor.
Amoebas are single-celled organisms. The so-called brain-eating amoeba is a species discovered in 1965 and formally named Naegleria fowleri. Although first identified in Australia, this amoeba is believed to have evolved in the United States. There are several species of naegleria, but only the N. fowleri species causes human disease. Like other amoebas, naegleria reproduce by cell division. When conditions are less than optimal, amoebas become inactive cysts. When conditions are favorable, the cysts turn into trophozoites -- their feeding form.
Naegleria Fowleri is just a formal name for the brain-eating amoeba which has been discovered since 1956! This amoeba causes the Naegleria Fowleri infection, also known as the amebic meningoencephalitis â a disease of the central nervous system. This infection has been shown to be almost always fatal. A research done has presented that only 3 out of 138 people in the U.S. have survived this infection from 1962 to 2013.