Brain-Eating Amoeba

Seriously: “Beach said people become infected when they wade through shallow water and stir up the bottom. If someone allows water to shoot up the nose—say, by doing a somersault in chest-deep water—the amoeba can latch onto the olfactory nerve. The amoeba destroys tissue as it makes its way up into the brain, where it continues the damage, ‘basically feeding on the brain cells,’ Beach said.” [via Yahoo/AP]

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