<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d1d2c4a2-e34d-4682-8ab4-4f09c58950fe/F5E235F0-AD8A-422A-9103-988B96AE4251/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2007/09/global-warming-boon-for-brain-eating.html" href="http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2007/09/global-warming-boon-for-brain-eating.html" style="font-size: 11px;">globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2007/09/global-warming-boon-for-brain-eating.html"><P><DIV>Sensational headline — one <A href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hDtrhKZXNW9NpqSXtcODCMzKwOrAD8RUKBMG0">with some basis in fact</A>:</DIV><BR /></P><BLOCKQUOTE>"This is definitely something we need to track," said Michael Beach, a specialist in recreational waterborne illnesses for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."This is a heat-loving amoeba. As water temperatures go up, it does better," Beach said. "In future decades, as temperatures rise, we'd expect to see more cases."</BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR />The villain is a killer amoeba, <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri">Naegleria </A><SPAN><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri">fowleri</A> </SPAN>(nuh-GLEER-ee-uh FOWL'-erh-eye), that enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die. The good news is that it has only killed six boys and young men this year, the bad news is that this is a spike; it has killed 23 people in the United States, from 1995 to 2004.<BR /></P> <P>The other bad news is that it's only getting hotter.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2007/09/global-warming-boon-for-brain-eating.html"><SPAN class="post-labels"> Labels: <A rel="tag" href="http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/search/label/Climate%20Change%20Effects">Climate Change Effects</A>, <A rel="tag" href="http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/search/label/Global%20Warming%20Firsts">Global Warming Firsts</A> </SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F5E235F0-AD8A-422A-9103-988B96AE4251/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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