Mad Cow disease, Ebola, bird flu, now brain eating ameba?
That’s really scary, or course it would be just as scary if they were kidney eating amoebas, or lung eating amoebas, but no one has ever felt the need to make a movie about big boo-gums that want to eat our kidneys, or lungs have they? That would be silly.
And so we have all the various popular films where there are all sorts of large nasty critters and / or things and / or former people that want to eat our brains, even if by themselves all they are is mainly fat and water. (I mean our brains, not the things that want to eat them)
This is why things like these amoebas are extra creepy. They sort of do what make believe things do.
As a totally irrelevant, completely off the topic side note to this, why are there no diseases that cause pleasure while they devourer you?
Seems to me that evolutionarily speaking it would be a natural.
Virus or bacteria or ameba X-Unknown wants to get into a host body, let’s say you, and start multiplying and eating. The immune system of your body reacts and you get chills and fever and what not to fight it, at the same time when we notice it we do what we can to help our immune system.
But what if a disease instead of making a person fill like the dog’s breakfast, made the host feel great, or even more energetic, while it went about its business of eating your brain, or pancreas or liver?
Sure the old stogy immune system would still make with the white blood cells and such, but we would more than likely turn quisling on our own bodies and try and help the invader survive!
Perhaps evolution isn’t as bright as we thought it was, or might some of the things we know are bad for us, but we still do anyway, not really bad habits, or just bad habits, but indeed a subtle and highly evolved virus or bacteria or ameba X-Unknown at work?
That is of course ridiculous because.
I’m sorry, I have to stop, the dinger telling me the triple chocolate chip cookies I was making for diner are ready.
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