Recent attention has been paid to a case of an infection and death of a young Arizona boy by the amoeba Naegleria Fowleri. The boy contracted the disease by swimming in Lake Havasu, and died within days of becoming ill. The disease is almost always fatal. Infection occurs when the amoeba invades the nervous system through the nasal cavity, climbing nerve fibers before invading the skull and infecting the brain through the cranium floor. The amoeba then causes cell death and bleeding in the brain's olfactory bulbs characterized by symptoms starting with problems with taste and smell, and then progressing rapidly to headache,nausea, vomiting, and fever. Personality changes can be seen, with death occuring within two weeks. Unlike bacteria and viruses, amoeba sit in their own class and are extremely difficult to treat. Normally targetting children or people with weak immune systems, Naegleria Fowleri responds only in its early states to broad antibiotic treatment. Experimental serums exist, but have not yet been proven on humans. Only six people have survived the infection, giving the disease only a 3% survival rate, with many of these cases only being diagnosed post-mortem. Its possible that many more cases have been seen, but not recognized.   The media has described this disease as a rare brain-eating amoeba, but it doesn't seem so rare anymore. Between 1995 and 2004 twenty three cases of Naegleria Fowleri infection were found in the United States, average about 2.5 cases per year. However, in 2007, in a nearly three-fold increase, six cases have been reported, all of them fatal.

The amoeba breakout is unusually widespread, with the 2007 deaths being reported in Florida, Texas and Arizona, covering the entire length of the southern United States.   What is causing the alarming rise in cases? The disease breeds in warm, stagnant water and as global warming continues to march, the CDC believes it will become increasingly widespread and common. Prevention is the key, do not swim in stagnant hot water, and be particularly careful when allowing children and young adults to swim.

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There's no doubt anymore that we're causing global warming. We see it as a problem, a catastrophe, but what if it's just the earth trying to defend itself?
Maybe we've turned into a fever for this planet, and the earth's "immunity system" is trying to find a way to get rid of us.

I think this is not far from the truth.Earth is a living thing and we are about to detroy it.There are far to many humans on this planet and earth is tying to get
rid of some of us.There are more and more new deseases and mother nature is gonna invent more evil illnesses to get rid of the parasite,called human beeings.

This is yet another example of our lack of understanding as it pertains to our living world. The problem is that it is automatically chalked up to global warming by the investigating agency or by the press itself. The presence of dormant extremophiles that we find in the most desolate conditions suggests a life cycle to all things, including the earth. These amoeba and their sudden increase in a detectable environment can be attributed to their reaching a heightened reproductive term in their overall life cycle. Their very presence on this planet suggests that conditions were right for their being spawned in the first place and unless a great environmental calamity occurred soon there after it is most likely that they thrived. At some point in time though something did change resulting in the amoeba's diminished reproduction and ability to sustain itself in greater numbers. This was more than likely environmental and more specifically a climate based alteration that effected the ecosystem as a whole. Now, as the earths life cycle turns to a similar climate, generating a more conducive eco-structure, the amoeba have found a new foot hold in our world. As we continue to live on this earth we will see many things whose definitions we have become comfortable with disappear. We will also see new and unfamiliar organisms come back to fruition. Organisms that we have no great understanding of. The real problem is that in the distant past we may have come in contact with something similar to this amoeba and slowly adapted to it. Today we rely on pharmaceuticals to fight our fights while our immune systems become stagnate and non responsive. This results in our lack of being biologically reactive and how do we fight the entire situation? Unless someone throws a mound of money at it we will do nothing. Our being able to fight the greater unknowns out there are tied to our worlds economic short-sightedness. We will be the cause of our own demise. It may not even wait for Global Warming to be proven or disproved. The table is already set. Studying amoeba isn't sexy or flashy and it takes a distant seat to viral research that only now is starting to receive greater attention. Someday soon those amoeba and others like it may notice that set table and decide to feast.

Katana357

i must say, that is a VERY intrieging line of thought there my friend.