Brain-Eating Parasite?!!? EEEK!!

[redhen]

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Nooo... ever see it?

Heard about it. Supposed to be really awesome!

It was... you would swim or move your hands and a trail of light followed you... reeeeally pretty.

 

[aggie9296]

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Nooo... ever see it?

Yes. But it's not technically the seaweed. It's little critters on the seaweed. We get them on the sand too and they light up when you walk on them. Sometimes the jellies light up too. I'm not brave enough to swim out there at night with any of them.

 

[redhen]

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Nooo... ever see it?

Yes. But it's not technically the seaweed. It's little critters on the seaweed. We get them on the sand too and they light up when you walk on them. Sometimes the jellies light up too. I'm not brave enough to swim out there at night with any of them.

Eeek..it was CRITTERS i was swimming with??! Its just figures!...

And yeah, i'm not brave enough NOW either...

 

[aggie9296]

Aw come on. You swam with sharks and now you are afraid of tiny little glo-worm shrimp?

 

[redhen]

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There wernt any sharks... i still have my legs.

I was more worried about stepping on a crab...

They are shrimp?? Heck... i woulda' been all over them puppies like a whale..

 

[aggie9296]

well, maybe not really shrimp. more like tiny sand fleas? then there are the diatoma-whatevers.

 

[magicpigeon]

I've always been scared of jelylfish after finding dead bluebottles washed up on the beach when I was 9.. I stepped on one LOL

 

[saddina]

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I feel this way about sharks.

 

[mom'sfolly]

We've had a couple of cases of this in Texas. I don't let my kids swim in the lakes when the water temperatures are high. This year in particular. Lake levels are very low, and water temperatures are high. As I understand it, this bug causes meningitis and amoebic infections are very hard to treat.

Scary stuff!!!!

 

[chicmom]

I saw that yesterday on Yahoo, and it was shocking. I'm glad it's a rare thing....