Brown out Samui

[katana]

I would like to know where this woman spent her vacation and where she swam.

Exactly, spot on!

I'm sure I read somewhere that the baths in Bath in England were closed long ago because a women got this. It's like 100% fatal. They should at least mention the whereabouts of where she was staying in Thailand. if it came from tap water then you would expect a few more cases would have occurred.

Yes there was a report of it in the UK in 1978.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zNgPIKR8FK4C&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=naegleria+fowleri+1979+bath+spa&source=bl&ots=gmLTfu3nn-&sig=2iUW3HiM0nGmrvzPO_CVArTbyng&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ijbmVKavCIP1OMKWgagF&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=naegleria%20fowleri%201979%20bath%20spa&f=false

There have been cases of Naegleria fowleri in many countries including the US, UK and NZ etc. So it's not particular to just SE Asia. However, its occurrence may well be underreported since it is often mistaken for 'meningitis' and unless you do specific tests you could miss it.

[sugarcane24]

Thanks for this! I am just organising a biopool (man-made pond for swimming) on our property near Hua Hin, so will take care not to put my head under water. The article also knocked my plans to install a springboard at the end of the pond on the head.

[IAMHERE]

I would like to know where this woman spent her vacation and where she swam.

And lets hope she didn't pay farang price to swim in a national park

[hanno]

I once made the mistake of looking up water-borne diseases in South East Asia. Not a good idea (I bike, run and Hash so end up in water quite often) and I chose to not take it to heart. 20 years later and I am still alive and kickin'.

Hashers are immune from infections while on a run. The beer will protect

OnOn!

True that.

On On!

[theguyfromanotherforum]

I do this nose rinse a lot.

Does the presence of bacteria always mean an infection?

Is there another bacteria that can cause this outcome?

[Friendly Stranger]

Nasal rinsing?

I wonder if water from taking a shower would cause such an issue, direct water flow onto ones face. I guess not, as you'd have one hell of an epidemic amongst tourists.

[theguyfromanotherforum]

Yeah nasal rinsing. My sinuses are shut. I was aware of this bacteria before so i always boil water but i wonder if its only this bacteria that is deadly.

[paulchiangmai]

I'm with Thian. In Pattaya during Songkran, the farang buy PVC pipe squirt guns that shoot more than a liter of water, and one nasty Brit bugger in a wet suit shot it up my nose as I was leaving my hotel during the first morning of my vacation. I was subsequently in bed for two days fighting a resistant nasal infection with multiple antibiotics.

When I was better, I dumped eleven bottles of Chang in the hotel room garbage can, the four liter size, let it stew in the tropical sun for a day and night, and dumped it on his head from the rooftop, giving him the one finger salute when he looked up smelling like the shit he was already made of.

Foreigners take a playful holiday and try to make it a blood sport. IDIOTS.

Are you sure it was the water thrower that was the idiot? He was only on holiday having a bit of fun the same as millions of others do, whereas you deliberately set out to cause him harm. The idiot, and a dangerous one at that, was you.

[lvr181]

Yeah nasal rinsing. My sinuses are shut. I was aware of this bacteria before so i always boil water but i wonder if its only this bacteria that is deadly.

If you want to kill of any type of water born bacteria MAKE SURE you boil the water for a minimum of two minutes - not let the electric jug turn itself off automatically when water has reached boiling point! This will also kill off cryptosporidum cysts.