Brain worms, ewww!!! We had a couple of N. Fowleri cases here in Oklahoma a while back. Two boys, 7 and 9, were playing in some hot stagnant water and each died within about a week. There was a House episode that took creative license of an N. Fowleri-like infection. So far, I think that would be on my Top 10 "Least Favorite Ways to Die" list. Anyway, I gotta get back to eating this egg salad sandwich I bought at a truck stop.

I understand there is a treatment for brain worms and will look further into the matter. Could many of the diseases that humans are afflicted with be misdiagnosed and possibly brain worms being the culpret instead?

Originally posted by amari
As far as nanotechnolgy do not know but if what my friend thinks is happening this is very scary indeed.

And previous comment about being ridiculed.

Cmon this is ATS everyone gets flamed, your talking about a real thing too not about goldfish with scalpels who infect livers at night when we are asleep.

And youve brought up a thread on Brain Worms, real as they are, dont worry about the ridicule knowing the human mind lol, as I do the Image created in most peoples mind of that will put them of ridicule and straight into search and survival mode Immediately.

Like our most ancient Human Relatives seeing a big sabre tooth approaching and hungry, point is they aint going to be asking which Valley the Sabre tooth came from, or how nice its coat maybe for a new winter rug for the cave this year.... But where might there be more at all, and the following ... ,

Lets keep my eyes on this one?

Is it alone, and if so where is the family and others, even vaguelly likely to be coming from?

How Can avoid it and its friends or kill it before it gets me?

All rational thoughts of logic dissapear with that image, of Worms in our brains eating us, well you know eggs hatching with fangs for mouths as tapes do... cysts exploding in our brains gross.......... trust me.... Mind did when I learnt about these critters years ago... so....

So cmon please tell us why your friend said?

We don't personally know you, ridicule if any at all is only against your online ID and even as a twenty odd year vegetarian I am Piqued?

Thank You,

Elf

Edit to add answer to OPs headline, NO and I dont intend to either

[edit on 15-1-2009 by MischeviousElf]

seriously want to know the reason for the increase. maybe this is why god tells muslims and jews to avoid pork!!! oooh, could be a muslim terror plot in the offing.

In futurama Frys brain worm helped him....

Hell if they give me super powers .... ill let them be my engineers.

i think the worms were in fry's bowel, not his brain, although they did increase his intelligence.

[edit on 15/1/09 by pieman]

I have read that tapeworm eggs can be inhaled!

We now have all these new diseases, thanks to government allowing so many 3rd worlders into our countries. The Mexicans have brought us their amebas and a deadly strain of Tb. Who knows what all is coming in with the Africans and Asians.

And for sure it would be politically incorrect or racist to demand that these people be checked for such diseases and denied entry if they came out positive for them.

It wasn't enough that government officials finally realized that exotic species of plants and animals ran rampant of the country. i.e. English Starlings, Australian Jack Rabbits, various plants etc.

Raw pumpin seeds will kill worms, at least in the intestines.

Ick.

The thought of worms in the brain... yuck, my intestines doth protest.

ohzone;(clever name, i like it) first of all, mexicans can't really bring an airborne disease like tb into the us, tb doesn't tend to respect human borders. a tourist could bring it in, cattle, animals(probably), it's not so clear cut as "those damn mexicans".

second; it wouldn't be racist to check the health of emigrants, seems pretty sencible and i'ld be surprised if the us didn't do it.

third; the american natives didn't fair so well with diseases in the early pioneer days, any influx of people will bring new disease, thats the way of it. 3rd world, 1st, doesn't matter.

Originally posted by MischeviousElf

Originally posted by amari
As far as nanotechnolgy do not know but if what my friend thinks is happening this is very scary indeed.

Cmon this is ATS everyone gets flamed, your talking about a real thing too not about goldfish with scalpels who infect livers at night when we are asleep.

[edit on 15-1-2009 by MischeviousElf]

As I recall it was a goldfish MAN ....and although he excreted electrical current from his body I do not recall anything about him ever weilding a scalpel....ahh ...never mind .....not important