Fear of brain eating amoeba

[Bigboyuk]

Yeah but fear doesn't always work like that. Look how many rabies posts we've had for the UK and it's very rare here.

It would seem logical to suggest it's more likely for Americans but if you look at the history of these threads they are rare before this year so whilst it might look like a snowball effect now how did it start when you could barely find a thread about it? And if you Google this my money is many sites popping up a long time before NMP in the results.

It points to an external factor for me. New people coming here after they've read it elsewhere.

And why no other countries? That's another reason I think it's more likely a media thing e.g. articles about swimming in lakes and amoebas in traditional Daily Mail fashion. Maybe our American members can tell us?

True I was going to say exactly what you have said it's external coverage which would include SM sites and Google is bound to have not helped one bit then they see search results and bang NMP has quite a few threads on this very problem. Yes would be interesting to see what our American members have to say on this. ATB

[paranoid-viking]

But this is a UK forum and look how the members raising this all seem to be in the US. Why not UK members?

That tells me it's not about NMP.

Not entirely true. Yes, the majority of BEA posters are Americans. But there have been at least two posters on this from Europe, including one from Denmark who seriously believed that brain eating amoebas exists in swimming pools. In SWIMMING POOLS! IN DENMARK! Which tells a lot how little HA has to do with knowledge and rationality.

[jray23]

I'm from Chicago USA, I had never heard of this thing until being on here. The first few times I thought it was troll posting! That being said I don't watch the news, almost ever, in recent years.

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[MyNameIsTerry]

True I was going to say exactly what you have said it's external coverage which would include SM sites and Google is bound to have not helped one bit then they see search results and bang NMP has quite a few threads on this very problem. Yes would be interesting to see what our American members have to say on this. ATB

There's a current report circulating about finding this at one place in the US that started 4 days ago. Not sure before that.

[Bigboyuk]

I have been looking at similar threads at the bottom of this thread and they are all from 2018 and from Feb to June so only a matter of 4 months ATB

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There's a current report circulating about finding this at one place in the US that started 4 days ago. Not sure before that.

Was this a news or SM report Terry? Any link to share? ATB

[MyNameIsTerry]

Not entirely true. Yes, the majority of BEA posters are Americans. But there have been at least two posters on this from Europe, including one from Denmark who seriously believed that brain eating amoebas exists in swimming pools. In SWIMMING POOLS! IN DENMARK! Which tells a lot how little HA has to do with knowledge and rationality.

But why mostly Americans is my question? There are far more UK members and not one has raised this from what I can see. It's more a US thing but spikes like this are often media driven so I'm wary of saying it's about NMP.

I can remember 1 from Denmark and you posting on it now you mention it. Like you say - in swimming pools - which won't happen with treated water.

Maybe a bit of both but it doesn't work that it's NMP for new members if they aren't watchers who sign up.

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I have been looking at similar threads at the bottom of this thread and they are all from 2018 and from Feb to June so only a matter of 4 months ATB

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Was this a news or SM report Terry? Any link to share? ATB

When I did a search it showed that spike compared to a few cases in 2017 and not much before then.

I'm not going to link on here, Dave. It's found very easily via Google though and the Daily Mail have picked it up. It doesn't explain the rest before though.

More than one factor is in play. It's a summer bug and I wonder what "health advice" may be popping up in the US that we wouldn't see.

There's plenty I never heard of until I joined this place. NMP is definitely a knowledge base for stuff you won't have heard before and that's not good for HAers but that's just forums for you.

Same said here by NervUs who's been through it:

http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthr...=218569&page=2

We see some impossible scenarios on here where facts don't even come into it but it's interesting with this one that we haven't seen one in the UK, given the site being more of us, even though the conditions are likely not right given how things just stick with some regardless of logic.

[HelloPanda23]

To be fair, my fear did start after reading a post about someone who snorted water from a pool as well, and so now I got the same fear as well. At first, when I read it, I wasn't afraid or anything, but after reading about this BEA, I started to fear it a lot, and so in HA, no matter how much logic is applied to a situation, if the fear is stronger, it'll always end up winning. That's why I freaked out so badly after learning about this terrible disease and thinking that it could affect me. Since yesterday, I've been taking this more calmly, but I still feel like the fear will go on throughout this week (because it takes 2-15 days for symptoms to appear and it's only been 6 days for me).

[Bigboyuk]

To be fair, my fear did start after reading a post about someone who snorted water from a pool as well, and so now I got the same fear as well. At first, when I read it, I wasn't afraid or anything, but after reading about this BEA, I started to fear it a lot, and so in HA, no matter how much logic is applied to a situation, if the fear is stronger, it'll always end up winning. That's why I freaked out so badly after learning about this terrible disease and thinking that it could affect me. Since yesterday, I've been taking this more calmly, but I still feel like the fear will go on throughout this week (because it takes 2-15 days for symptoms to appear and it's only been 6 days for me).

Yes but also to be fair this the (your) HA telling you through news and SM sites, Dr Google it feeds the dragon, I guarantee you haven't got BEA and could lay all my savings on this, so basically it's down to treating one's HA this is the real cause, does this make sense to you?ATB

[HelloPanda23]

Yes but also to be fair this the (your) HA telling you through news and SM sites, Dr Google it feeds the dragon, I guarantee you haven't got BEA and could lay all my savings on this, so basically it's down to treating one's HA this is the real cause, does this make sense to you?ATB

I know. I'm just scared and that's all. If I'm alive by the end of this week, I'm going to dismiss my fear of this disease. Especially since it's impossible for me to get this disease from a pool that is salt water and chloronated, at a temp of 86.

[Fishmanpa]

If I'm alive by the end of this week, I'm going to dismiss my fear of this disease. Especially since it's impossible for me to get this disease from a pool that is salt water and chloronated, at a temp of 86.

So knowing it's impossible, why not dismiss it now? Respectfully, it's ludicrous to allow yourself to torture yourself for the rest of the week knowing what you know. Unless you like feeling like poo...

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