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- acrodev, on 10/10/2007, -11/+60And 43,443 people died driving on the road, possibly driving to those lakes. (2005 US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
So you'd better stay at home. - smacksaw, on 10/10/2007, -10/+45Straight out of Creepshow, I'd say. This is more Stephen King than Sci-Fi.
If this thing ever gets into oceans and ***** up surfing, I'm taking a double major in World Religion and Physics and going to build a machine to find God and beat his ass.
Also Havasu is nasty. No surprise. - Okari, on 10/10/2007, -7/+40You know women aren't allowed out of the kitchen, that's why it's only guys.
- bitt3n, on 10/10/2007, -5/+37that's because it feasts on the logic center of the brain.
- fcukbush, on 10/10/2007, -22/+52Six boys and young men? Women's brains are too small even for a brain eating amoeba.
(i hope the women on digg stick to the celebrity section today)
(crap, I think that bit in brackets made it even worse) - FortyCaliber, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27100% of deaths each year happen to those who were living.
- THUMPerRTE, on 10/10/2007, -6/+31I for one welcome our brain-eating overlords...
- stox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23Strangely enough, samples taken to Washington DC quickly die of starvation.
- Red05, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22I think this site writes headlines just for Digg.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+21Sadly, the 450,000 people who die each year eating at Taco Bell are ignored. Oh, the humanity.
- S1ngular1ty1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Not true. Males just have a higher probability of being affected.
- catalysis, on 10/10/2007, -10/+24I hate when people compare everything to how many people are killed driving, as if somehow that makes it perfectly ok that people die any other way. How many of those accidents were due the drivers own incompetence?
- Hawk2007, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16This is what almost killed Foreman on House.
- LaueOfficer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12That's what she said.
- johnlandes, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15Has Dubya been swimming in one of those Texas lakes?
Might explain his hallucinations that he is doing a good job - BlueSkyfish, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13They should put up some signs
"Beware of Zombie Amoeba" - Enochyang, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I can just picture it now....
Non-digger: You read the news lately?
Digger: Yea, bro. Did you hear about the meteor gunk causing sickness in Peru?? Or about those Philadelphia doctors bringing back the dead?? Or how about those six people that died from ***** BRAIN-EATING Amoebas!?!?! - sancho320, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Damn sexist amoebas!
- avisotin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Diggers don't talk to non-diggers, silly.
- 80hd, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12This is a duplicate..
- leonhyral, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Havasu has some of the nastiest water I've ever had the displeasure to swim in/drink. It's no different drinking from the tap than from drinking the gutter water that appears in your yard during the monsoon season.
- Cowmin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8dugg down for spelling your insult wrong
- Lane, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Mmmm brains...
- YamiJim, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9lol
for you trolls
Satire(n)
1. the use of ridicule or scorn, often in a humorous or witty way, to expose vices and follies.
2. a literary example of such ridicule or scorn. - praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -0/+7Oh my god....living sure is dangerous.
- compgeek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6kinda creepy that something so tiny can cause that much damage
- vertinox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Except for the sharks.
- L4WL3RS34L, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7It sounds more like one of those crappy movies with a $200 budget on the Sci-Fi channel that no one has ever heard of.
- hollowex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+62 decades ago called, it wants its burn back.
- Cowmin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Way to read the article and repeat part of it.
- SFVenturer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5It does not specifically attack males only! or little boys! it infects anyone who gets water that contains the virus up their noses and mouth and whatever. Boys and Men may get infected more because of whatever water activities they are playing/doing but that does not mean they are statisticaly more likely to get infected. Anyone playing in a lake that has the virus has equal chances.
So if you're a girl/woman, don't take comfort knowing the guys have a higher chance of catching than you do. - catalysis, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8Nobody said anything about being afraid of going into lakes. This story is interesting because it is a sudden spike in cases of a rare disease (primary amoebic meningoencephalitis). I think YOU guys are totally missing the point.
- Mike415, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4That's too high a percentage. I call ***** :)
- Logal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3This actually happens in lakes in Florida too. If you do swim, just don't go down all the way to the bottom, and its usually more prevalent during the hotter months.
- vertinox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4He is trying to point out that you shouldn't get all worked up about dying to something that is extremely rare and won't affect you or anyone you know. Its like how people get all worked up about terrorism and scream that we need to pass more laws, but in truth you are more likely to die in a car accident. Same thing here... They set up a hotline and talked about closing down the lake, but in Florida you are more likley to die by alligator attack or snake bite than you would die of an amoeba.
Although, it isn't a particular nice way to go, it doesn't look as bad as Ebola.
Secondly, on your point that "as if somehow that makes it perfectly ok that people die any other way". If you would show me an example of not dying any other way, I and plenty of others would love to find out how you expect on avoiding death. AFAIK, its pretty much unavoidable so death is death whether its of old age, car wreck, or aomeba. In the end... You are dead so death in all respects is equal.
Its the actual dying part that is unequal. As the saying goes: "I'd like to die in my sleep like my grandpa, not like his screaming passengers." - expert01, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6I just read this article in the paper tonight. What disturbs me is that it only affects males.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It has already happened to the entire state of Florida.
- vegasbright, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3this ***** is all over Nevada hot springs. My grandfather warned me never to dunk my head under if I go swimming in them.
- fcukbush, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3who are you talking to?
- TheGrandGeneral, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2IM IN UR BRAINZ, STEALIN UR SOULZ!
- renegadeafk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Your Mom.
- Christ0s, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2swim in salt water. the salt will kill everything plus it helps you float
- tehbishop, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You don't go to Havasu to swim. You go there during Spring Break for the scenery.
- VillaStraylight, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4The more I read the funnier it gets. I am a horrible person.
- joshf52, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Cabin Fever?
- cultist667, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Star Jelly overlords.
- SuperGreen420, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's straight out of reality you idiot.
- jarinudom, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2Yup that's the first thing I thought when I read the article, exact same species :)
- AaronCo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2No no, new diggers bud from old ones. Asexual reproduction FTW!
- TypeEE, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4it proves women have no brains
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