If the amoebas are microscopic, and they can eat away at the human brain without anyone knowing till it's too late, do they kill fish too? If this is the case, wouldn't we have found a decrease in the fish population as well? That would have been at least a sign that this killer amoeba has been roaming around in certain lakes.
Is there anyone on here that knows these things? I've been pulling myself away from the forensic magazines of mine, and have begun studying this. I can't seem to find anything on it except the news on the little boy who died on Sept 17th.
Any one who has any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Bekah.
2007-10-23 08:51:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Not sure this link will work but found 6 interesting articles on this deadly but extremely rare amoeba. Just click on the news article that interests you the most. Very, very tricky to even get that screen to come up in the first place without prior experience. Then, if these articles are insufficient there is a trick where you go to the top and alter your search parameters to "All news articles" as it was limited to "yahoo news only."
More people actually die of lightning strikes. More people drown.
2007-10-23 14:09:34 · answer #1 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The amoeba you are referring to can only enter a body through a body opening leading to a exposed nerve complex.
In this case it was from entering the nasal passage.
Fish aren't similarly affected.
2007-10-23 08:59:14 · answer #2 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
B r a i n Wo r m s a n d B r a i n
A m o e b a s : T h ey D o E x i s t?
http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=Brain+Eating+Amoebas&y=Search&rd=pref&fr=yie7c&u=pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/EandS/articles/BrainWormsPaper.pdf&w=brain+eating+amoebas+amoeba&d=Q7F2HudmPqKz&icp=1&.intl=us
2007-10-23 09:40:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many it only attacks human nervous systems?
2007-10-23 08:56:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋