14 Year old Lake Havasu boy dies from the rare Amoeba -

[SUPERJET-113]

http://www.havasunews.com/articles/2007/09/20/news/news01.txt#photos

It seems this amoeba is getting around.
This blows...

Parents, if you’ve been swimming and your child has a headache, take them to the hospital!!

 

[willycrumb]

That sux..

Didnt I read the other day the water has to be above 80 and stagnent?

Windsor is not 80 or stagnent.


I'll go with my usual blame when weird biological happen frequent all of a sudden. Terrorists

 

[SUPERJET-113]

That sux..

Didnt I read the other day the water has to be above 80 and stagnent?

Windsor is not 80 or stagnent.
I'll go with my usual blame when weird biological happen frequent all of a sudden. Terrorists

Well in July and August the water can easily become 80+ in that area. As far as stagnant, it gets constantly stirred by boats that time of year. Thats what i dont understand, unless it got stirred off the bottom in like 1 ft or less of water. Dunno, sucks though.

 

[LisaLisa]

He was swimming in a back slough near Windsor...really sad.

 

[SUPERJET-113]

He was swimming in a back slough near Windsor...really sad.

Not to bring up this sad subject again but:

I just found out he was a Mesquite Bay fishing pier area(on London Bridge rd) not at Windsor tate park beach areas like the Lake Havasu City papers says in the link I first posted.
That would explain the slough conditions even better as there are some real shallow coves and nasty swampy cattail areas around there. I dont even think swimming is allowed there. He was way off the beaten path and I dont know why anybody would want to swim there when its that hot out. :dunno:

 

[RDH]

two people died here also, in the highland lakes area of central texas..

80+ stagnent water.....only if you get it in your nasal passages....so diving or putting your head in shallow water after stirring up the bottom is no bueno...