Brain Eating Organism
Headache, Fever, Brain Eating Organism; it sounds like some thing out of science fiction. Oh it is, it was mentioned in the X-Files TV series.
Oh good.
Then why did it recently kill six in Lake Havasu?
The killer is the Naegleria Fowleri; an ameba found in warm water and soil. It enters the body through the nose and goes straight to the brain through small holes called the cribriform plate.
According to the Department of Immunology, Adelaide Children’s Hospital, South Australia, studies showed “results indicate that neutrophils are necessary for the expression of immunity to N. fowleri.”
Neutrophils are the most common type of white blood cells, the immunity police in the body. But as we continue to fill our bodies with junk, processed, and unseasonal foods, we lower our immune system. As we do this, more organisms that we might not have had a problem with before, will be able effect us in new and unconventional ways.
