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Brain-Eating Amoebas in Freshwater Lakes
from The Christmas Episode | The Tim Dillon Show #328 · #328
3 min
He describes the brain-eating amoeba (Naegleria fowleri) found in warm freshwater lakes and Texas splash parks, walking through the gruesome timeline from headache to death, and concludes rich people should just buy beachfront property to swim in salt water instead.
- Tim recounts a cousin's heroin addiction and the unpredictability of what might happen when she disappeared into the bathroom.
- Buffalo is a horrible place with no good areas, and Tim has fans there who agree.
- Brain-eating amoebas are now present in all the lakes, killing children in freshwater across Texas, Arizona, and Nevada.
- The amoeba swims up your nose while you're in a lake or pond, causing headaches and stiff neck before progressing to complete paralysis and death within days.
- Texas authorities warned people the brain-eating amoeba was in the water supply and told them to figure it out themselves because they don't care.
- A child died at a splash park in Texas after the amoeba entered his nose and his brain swelled and exploded.
- The scientific name for the brain-eating amoeba is naegleria fowleri, and it thrives in warm freshwater lakes, rivers, and hot springs.
- Nature is a problem and people should be careful, though Tim admits the real solution is buying a house on the beach for sixty or eighty million dollars to swim in salt water instead.