Talk:Naegleriasis

Other means of infection?

Can you get this from other ways than just swimming in an infected lake? Could eating fish from an infected lake spread the naegleria fowleri to the human body and cause the same effects? Gorovich 16:03, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

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I am uncertain just how much detail is acceptable or desirable. Naegleria spp. typically flagellate when their growth medium is diluted, i.e., they are added to water. The flagellate stage is temporary because it is non-feeding and non-dividing. The flagellate reverts to the amoeboid stage after a few hours. Inducing flagellation by the transfer of amoebae from the seeded non-nutrient agar plates to sterile water is the fastest means to screen for Naegleria. Additional test can then be used to confirm N. fowleri. Incubation of the seeded plates at 35C will help select for N. fowleri by eliminating most amoebaes that cannot grow at that elevated temperature.

Shel 01:03, 28 November 2006 (UTC)Shel

I added a link to a brief description of Primary Amoebic Meningeoncephalitis --User:Tanail March 29th, 2007

Any control methods?

This is some nasty stuff, and a clear threat to public safety. Does this organism have any natural enemies / competitors / predators that a lake manager or other authority could introduce to control its presence? knoodelhed 05:49, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Cortical Blindness

Cortical blindness is when the patient thinks he can NOT see, but actually has some visual perception left through non-cortical pathways. There is are also forms of "hysterical blindness", where patients imagine they are blind but actually have a physiologically normal visual system.

I suppose there must be cases where patients imagine they can see when they cannot, but that wouldn't be cortical blindness, it would be a delusional state in a blind person.

However, since I haven't seen "House", I can't correct the entry. Maybe someone who has can figure out whether "House" got it doubly wrong, or whether merely this entry got it wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.26.10.162 (talk) 01:13, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Are the numbers reported worldwide or US?

This should be clarified, otherwise it's pointless even stating the numbers