Road trip to Texas, anyone?

[GoodPersonEffed]

Some towns have brain eating amoeba in the water, and it's almost always fatal.

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Beware scammers who say they'll mail you water! (But also not joking.)

 

[Wayfaerer]

Not a pleasant way to go.

 

[esse_est_percipi]

I wonder how long it takes to die and what the exact symptoms are.

 

[GoodPersonEffed]

Not a pleasant way to go.

I haven't researched it, but "brain-eating" leads me to believe pleasantness would be in short supply.

 

[Aap]

After incubation 1-4 days from symptom onset. It's incredibly fast as far as progression goes.

 

[nitroautnz]

Damned! that doesn't sound like a very pleasant death

 

[Smudgedlines]

I have a real fear of wriggly things being in me.

Edit: that came out wrong

edit again: I give up

 

[yetme]

As someone who is dying from an incurable bacterial infection I can assure you that this is a horrific way to go. The agony and pain I have to go through every day of my life is beyond human understanding. So I don't find this post in any way funny.