I'll pass on surfing Waco

Scary stuff.
In the early 1970s I heard about someone dying from this brain eating amoeba after swimming in a stream called "Deep Creek" near the Boy Scout summer camp we had gone to. This was in the mountains north of LA. Most of us had swam in that stream.

 

Funny thing is... even a clean ocean has WAY more microbial life in it than any pool. It's just that none of it will make you sick like that.

 

Very sad. He was a fellow jerzian. Too young to go.

 

Sketchy & scary stuff, appreciate the heads-up Mitchell

 

Yikes

 

Similar situation in Charlotte a couple years ago.

Whitewater Center rafting closes after brain-eating amoeba found in water

U.S. National Whitewater Center officials closed the park’s water channels Friday after investigators detected the waterborne amoeba suspected in the death of an Ohio teen who had visited the center.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article85846642.html

 

Crazy. I am going to Dallas in November and was thinking about making a trip down there one of the days to check it out. I think I'll pass now...

 

A buddy of mine literally just surfed there with some friends

 

When you enter the water, you're not always entering at the top of the food chain.

 

It's always been a habit of mine to clean out my nose with fresh water from the tap after surfing. I think I'll stop doing that now.

 

so is this a fresh water problem or it can happen in salt water too?

I must say its some pretty scary sh1t.u have enough things to worry about while surfing.marine life,drowning,gettin ur shit tossed in the water...

how do these things originate and can they test the water for them?im guessin they did that's why they know its a brain eating organism thing.pretty sad,surf ur whole life in the ocean,and the first time u go to a waterpark surfout u die from fukin bacteria

 

“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's

 

Fresh water problem, only where the water is warm all the time. Not an issue up here in the north to date.

This is literally my worst nightmare. I'd rather go boogie boarding in the Farallons than get this.

 

Ain’t that some sheet