If living in or visiting Louisiana and other Gulf Coast areas, beware of a brain-eating amoeba that recently killed at least two victims, a child and a youth, plus at least two others in 2011 and an untold number of others. Autopsies are not regularly performed.
The Center For Disease Control (CDC) knew of at least two recent amoeba-caused deaths but failed to contact parish officials to advise them that the deadly bug is in their communities, according to CBS, not unusual since BP’s 2010 BP Gulf oil catastrophe and the “Safe Gulf Myth” campaign began.
“It’s creeping into the water supply from the GOM [Gulf of Mexico] and St. Bernard is just the first in line,” an email to Deborah Dupré from a concerned woman with family in St. Bernard Parish said Saturday evening.
St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana (Image Credit: Google Maps)
Playing in Louisiana and other Gulf coast waters has been a known hazard, especially in the aftermath of the April 2010 BP Gulf oil and Corexit dispersant catastrophe. That operation, called “genocide” by some locals, at least one official and toxicologists, has included a major medical coverup. (See Vampire of Macondo, Chapter 7, Medical Inhumanity)
Adding to Gulf coast waterway oil/Corexit injuries and death, this week a little boy, 4, died from the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri. He’d innocently played on a slip-and-slide near New Orleans in Bernard Parish where finally, the deadly amoeba has been officially reported.
A 12-year-old Florida boy contracted the amoeba last month, was treated with a drug, but taken off of life support at the end of the month when his brain activity did not return.
This is not the first time the brain-eating amoeba killed Louisiana residents, nor first time a major medical cover-up has occurred there. At least three others reportedly died from the amoeba the summer of 2011 — just from tap water in their homes. Officials then advised people to boil tap water before drinking it. What about, however, bathing, showering or playing in unboiled water? In 2011, this reporter wrote:
“Louisiana health officials have issued a warning Friday to residents about nonsterilized tap water after at least two people, one in De Soto Parish and the other in New Orleans, died after exposing their brains to a deadly, water-borne, brain-eating amoeba while flushing their nasal passages. Since autopsies are not regularly performed anymore, the actual number of deaths caused by this infection is unknown.”
Using small teapot-shaped containers, neti pots, is only one way for the deadly bug to enter the human body. The initial step of infection can occur “when diving or inadvertently aspirating water during swimming,” advises Medicine Net, also indicating this infection can occur in under-chlorinated swimming pools.
Post-BP Oil Catastrophe Medical Inhumanity
For over three years, trust in Gulf Coast medical system has justifiably died, along with many untold human deaths related to BP oil and dispersant Corexit used to carpet-bomb the region to help fortify the Gulf Operation coverup.
Forty-six days after the 2010 BP oil catastrophe began, the Gulf Operation tempo was “almost as high as Louisiana aviation units deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan experienced,” according to Army Col. Patrick R. Bossetta, commander of State Aviation Command in Hammond, La. Soldiers and airmen “staged for” and “engaged in” planning to evacuate, provide security, and clean up for coastal communities, according to Governor Bobby Jindal.
Cajuns and other Gulf coast residents believed that aid was forthcoming. They still believed elected officials bought by Big Oil. One of few exceptions was Louisiana’s Chris Roberts, Jefferson Parish Councilman.
“We have dealt with the same issues,” Roberts said. “We have gotten the same roadblocks. We requested assets a long time ago. You know, we have been in this fight now for 46 days-plus, and it’s just very unfortunate that it seems to me that the same situation is playing out all over the Gulf Coast.”
National Guard operations were necessary and appropriate to protect the region from “a significant national event with potential catastrophic loss of natural resources,” claimed Governor Bobby Jindal. What about people? Was oil the “natural resource” of which he wrote? Time would show no life form was protected: not flora, fauna, fish nor marine mammals – and least of all, Gulf coast people.
Did the Gulf and its coast need to be acquired for Full Spectrum Dominance for the financial empire, as some political analysts speculated?
“It is long past time for people to stop their allegiance to the American Financial Empire and to begin thinking about their grandchildren’s grandchildren,” Claire M. commented beneath one of Dupré’s Gulf Operation articles.
“This is one way to get control of the Gulf and other state waters,” Internet user Texas Girl commented. “I have heard that some homes have already been condemned due to oil in the sand around the homes. These homes can’t be sold. So is this a government takeover?
“The people that won’t move die from the spray and poisoned water and food? Too many people I know don’t believe our gov would do this. Wake up. Get your state to pass the 10th Amendment to protect your state from the Fed. Gov.”
“You can’t count on government agencies like the FDA and the EPA to protect you,” Gulf coast medical doctor Russell Blaylock has asserted. “They don’t share their concerns over contaminants with us – the general public – through the media or through public alerts.”
Toxicologist Riki Ott said that after only one week in Grand Isle, Louisiana, workers were ill with a mysterious disease. Gulf Coast victims of the “mysterious” Gulf Crud consistently reported since April 2010, however, that they have been medically mistreated, not properly diagnosed or treated, as confirmed by Dr. Rodney Soto.
Since the Gulf oil atrocity began, women and children have bled from all orifices, similar to the dying and dead Gulf dolphins, just as Corexit is supposed to do, according to EPA whistleblower Hugh Kaufman. He is familiar with government health cover-ups, having served as ombudsman investigator of 9/11 Ground Zero. Kaufman agreed with MSNBC’s report: “the sole purpose in the Gulf for dispersants is to keep a cover-up going for BP to try to hide the volume of oil… released and save them hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars of fines… not to protect the public health or environment. Quite the opposite.”
The Gulf disaster injured far more people than those in the Exxon Valdez, even more than the reported 40,000 Gulf oil cleanup workers. It affected millions of residents, said Kaufman. Within weeks of the Gulf oil operation, the sickest were people in Alabama’s Dauphin Island and Orange Beach areas, and south of New Orleans, around Louisiana’s Barataria Bay, Grand Isle and Venice.
A cancer time bomb ticks for up to 40 million people directly poisoned in the petrochemical-military-industrial-complex (PMIC) Gulf Operation plus untold millions more across the nation; people who’ve eaten tainted Gulf seafood and tourists.
U.S. military and asset aircraft sprayed people with the deadly dispersant, causing immediate injuries or accumulating for early death, according to numerous accounts. An interviewer asked Louisiana resident Capt. Louis Bahi in 2010, after low-flying planes sprayed him twice, how others feel about government’s response to this human suffering: “Is there a sense of abandonment not only by BP and their affiliates, but also by the government?”
“Totally,” Capt. Louis replied. “You hit the nail on the head. I can’t say anymore than that.”
Sick people suffering with an array of odd and often gruesome symptoms flooded Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctor’s headquarters in New Orleans with phone calls and emails asking for Survival Detox Kits. Tourists who swam in the Gulf were among those contacting Barefoot Doctors for help.
Locals living over a mile from the Gulf reported same poisoning symptoms: “flu-like feeling” followed by severe rashes; then further respiratory problems, ‘cloudy-headiness’ and worse.These symptoms are continually experienced by many “Safe Gulf coast” visitors. Increasingly, locals and visitors reported bleeding from rectum, ears and nose, plus vomiting blood.
For over three years, no government health aid has been forthcoming for Gulf coast locals or the untold number of tourists returning home with odd antibiotic-resistant diseases. The medical establishment has systematically denied this human right to health, except a few doctors, such as doctors Rodney Soto and Mike Robichaux. This right has been no concern to Obama’s administration that has denied for three years a united plea for medical humanitarian aid.
All but few doctors neglect to relate odd new health issues to the Gulf oil crime. Why not? Gulf coast doctors justifiably fear fossil fuel industry retaliation. They were threatened to never disclose the “Safe Gulf Myth.”
Many misnomers have been used in the BP Gulf oil human health coverup, such as calling the new plague “BP Flu” or “Blue Plague.” Many called the oil catastrophe a “spill.” (A spill is a leak from a container. A gusher from the bottom of the ocean is not a spill. A spill is also an accident. Deliberate recklessness is not an accident.) Using misnomers and ineffective treatments continue to help cover up Gulf truth and increase collateral damage.
“Without your health, you have nothing,” Capt. Bahi concluded a talk one day at a gathering at Dr. Robichaux’s home. With a detectable crack in his voice, he said, “I just pray to God every day I can watch my little girls grow up.”
“It’s really a horrible situation down here,” he said, before warning, “It’s going to spread further.”
“The BP oil spill has caused far more serious impact on the environment than the Fukushima accident,” asserted Vladimir Uiba, head of Russia’s Federal Medical-Biological Agency.
Three years later
Now, three years after the Gulf coverup began, St. Bernard Parish officials advise the brain-eating water bug is a deadly problem, albeit “very rare.”
“The water is safe to drink and there are basic precautions that families can take — such as chlorinating their pools and avoiding getting water in their noses — to protect themselves, though infection from this amoeba is very rare,” Louisiana state health officer Jimmy Guidry said in a press release.
“Test results from the federal CDC confirm the presence of the rare ameba Naegleria fowleri in four locations of the St. Bernard Parish water system, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) announced Thursday.”
“As it progresses, it can cause changes in a person’s behavior and lead to confusion and hallucinations,” states CDC. CDC’s waterborne disease and outbreak surveillance coordinator Dr. Jonathan Yoder has stated that it’s a “tragic infection.” The infection occurs “right at the frontal lobe,” he said about victims. “It affects behavior and the core of who they are — their emotions, their ability to reason — it’s very difficult.”
This amoeba usually causes death within one to twelve days, according to the CDC. Its recent press release advises of the following precautionary measures, prefacing the list with, “To prevent any risk when using drinking water, make sure water does not go up your nose.” CDC’s common sense suggestions include:
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•DO NOT allow water to go up your nose or sniff water into your nose when bathing, showering, washing your face, or swimming in small hard plastic/blow-up pools.
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•DO NOT jump into or put your head under bathing water (bathtubs, small hard plastic/blow-up pools) – walk or lower yourself in.
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•DO NOT allow children to play unsupervised with hoses or sprinklers, as they may accidentally squirt water up their nose. Avoid slip-n-slides or other activities where it is difficult to prevent water going up the nose.
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•DO run bath, shower taps and hoses 5 minutes before useing to flush out pipes. This is most important first time using the tap after the water utility raises the disinfectant level.
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•DO keep small hard plastic/blow-up pools clean by emptying, scrubbing, and allowing them to dry after each use.
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•DO use only boiled and cooled, distilled, or sterile water to make sinus rinse solutions for neti pots or for ablutions.
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•DO keep your swimming pool adequately disinfected before and during use. Adequate disinfection means: Pools: free chlorine at 1-3 parts per million (ppm) and pH 7.2-7.8; Hot tubs/spas: free chlorine 2-4 parts per million (ppm) or free bromine 4-6 ppm and pH 7.2-7.8; If you need to top off the water in your swimming pool with tap water,
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•DO place the hose directly into the skimmer box and ensure that the filter is running.
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•DO NOT top off by placing the hose in the body of the pool.
To this list, one might justifiably add:
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Do NOT believe the “Safe Gulf” Myth.
“In ‘Vampire of Macondo’, author Deborah Dupre has captured incredible factual detail and has explained the true magnitude of this horrendous Gulf Oil Spill tragedy. Including the Cover ups, Collusion, Human Consequences and the effects on the Environment. A must read for anyone that wants to know the REAL story!” – Ron Tully (TullyNews.Info)
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The Safe Gulf Myth needs debunking nationally, my friends. BP’s ads on corporate media TV stations are part of fossil fuel industry’s criminality, placing millions of people in harm’s way, as Barack Obama has done with his fake swim with his daughter in the “Clean Gulf” and denying humanitarian aid to millions of people impacted by poisonous Gulf water, air and seafood.
The main point here is that the CDC along with the medical system along the Gulf covers up far too much for people to trust these corporate government agencies. By the way, am I the only one who finds it difficult to not get water in nostril when washing hair? How about washing children’s hair?
Thank you for pointing out the possible BP/GOM link. In any case, thank goodness for chlorine and the ease of prevention on the part of the public.