Obama's Secret Weapon: The Brain Eating Amoeba!

Liberals and progressives and Obama supporters frequently said me emails filled with such intelligent comments as 'you're crazy' and 'who pays you' and 'you're a poopyhead,' and I've always wondered why my critical reviews and hard hitting analysis and data and charts and well-reasoned questioning is met by these left-wing groups with such brainless comments, and today I figured out why- they must be victims of the terrifying brain eating amoeba!

A 9-year-old Virginia boy has died of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, the second case of the rare illness this month and the third this summer. A 16-year-old Florida girl died last week of the illness, which is caused by infection with the amoeba Naegleria fowleri. A Louisiana man died in June of the same disease.

The illness is rare and nearly untreatable, according to the CDC. From 2001 through 2010, there were only 32 cases reported in the U.S. While several drugs appear to work in the lab, there is little evidence they can rescue infected people.

Indeed, the agency reported in 2008 that a review found 121 cases from 1937 through 2007, but only one survivor. A 1982 report in the New England Journal of Medicine said a 9-year-old California girl was successfully treated after contracting the infection while swimming in hot springs in the San Bernardino National Forest.

The two most recent cases were also linked to swimming in warm, fresh water, where N. fowleri thrives, but news reports said the Louisiana man contracted the infection after flushing his sinuses with tap water.

Virginia state epidemiologist Keri Hall, MD, said that an autopsy confirmed the boy's death was caused by the amoeba, but did not give further details. News reports, however, said he had died August 5 after a visit to a Virginia fishing camp the week before.

N. fowleri invades the central nervous system through the cribriform plate and can be found in the subarachnoid and perivascular spaces, according to the CDC. The subsequent inflammation of the olfactory bulbs progresses rapidly to the cerebral hemispheres, brain stem, posterior fossa, and spinal cord.

One clinical difficulty is that symptoms, which occur within seven days of exposure, are the same as those of fulminant bacterial meningitis, including headache, fever, anorexia, vomiting, signs of meningeal inflammation, altered mental status, and coma.

Seriously though, this is not funny stuff, and I don't wish this sort of thing on even my worst enemy. Perhaps the fools with bark at me as a dog does with their comments and such only got a sniff of the thing and not a full-blown infection.

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