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There's this organism or amoeba or whatever the heck it is that lives in warm, fresh water. It gets into your system - perhaps through the nose when your child jumps into the water at Lake Elsinore - and then dies from it a week or less later!
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The Amazon has some really nasty things that crawl up various and sundry orfices and don't make nice. I still swam in it.
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Today I fear that some of my dreams may come true
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it can happen
if you really want to know how I know. ( a bit of a downer) Spoiler:
I was exposed to it repeatedly. never showed the remotest sign. while dangerous, its not something to worry about unless youre already immune compromised in one way or another. for the most part a good healthy person would fight it off probably without ever noticing. the biggest problem is, its incredibly easy to spread |
Jack, that's awful. It's true that staph is nasty, even when it's not drug-resistent. And that the latest round is resistent.
Compromised immune systems can be trouble- a guy we used to know was having chemo for lymphoma. He got a fungal infection and it literally killed parts of his face before they got it under control. Bad scene. But it's also true that news in LA relies heavily on scare tactics. We joke about the "newest danger sweeping the Southland- is your home at risk? Find out tonight". |
oh, Im just down the road is san diego. we get the same here. spinach, plumbing hooked into brown water, ecoli, rats...blah blah.
why else would someone suffer through a news report but for the bad news? except for the weather, most times I'll pop into a news site somewhere, make sure the world isnt going to end in the next 10 min and right back to a life already in progress. somehow, I dont feel less for missing out on it |
I gave up watching the tv news a long time ago. I get my news now from the 'net and from public radio (on those few days when I'm in the car). I read newspapers sometimes, too. Once in a while I watch to laugh at "StormWatch 7000".
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