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[-] SingularEye 70 points 2 years ago

I had a brain-eating amoeba once, poor fella died of hungry.

[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago
[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

Hungry like a warf

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

They look like the Snifit from Super Mario Bros 2 lol

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

I don't know why but this makes me love humanity

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

There had to be a reason somewhere

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I could have something to do with Bofa?

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Bank of America?

...or bofa deez nuts‽

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[-] Smorty 3 points 2 years ago
[-] threethan@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

Gonna put bofa deez little guys in my hed

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Typically found in warm freshwater bodies such as ponds or badly managed pools, lakes, rivers, hot springs, warm water discharge from industrial or power plants, geothermal well water, poorly maintained or minimally chlorinated swimming pools with residual chlorine levels under 0.5 mg/m3, water heaters, soil, and pipes connected to tap water, it can exist in either an amoeboid or temporary flagellate stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri

To feed, N. fowleri uses specialized structures on the surface of its cell body, called simply “food-cups.” These are suction-cup like features that ensnare and absorb food. The protist also oozes enzymes that burst and destroy human cells and nerves.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/brain-eating-amoeba-kills-again-heres-how-it-kills-and-how-to-avoid-it/

*Also, it just eats your immune system. So...

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