Facts About Science That People Are Scared Of

Hungry Bacteria

“My best friend and bunkmate from summer camp died from one of those when I was in 7th grade. It happened so quickly, we were a week into camp, and he got really sick. They gave us all heavy meningitis shots because they didn’t know what it was, and within a few days, he was dead. Turned out to be a brain-eating amoeba.

Edit: strangely enough, on the same day he started getting sick, one of the lifeguards that were sitting out in a boat waiting for the next group of kids for what we called Trojans Vs. Spartans day had a seizure, fell off the boat, and drowned. Only deaths they’d ever had in the 50+ years the camp had been open.”