How Worried Do You Need To Be About Brain Eating Amoebas

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Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Brain-eating amoebas sound scary. I mean, they eat your brain! That doesn’t mean you have to let them keep you up at night. These amoebas /are/ deadly, but there are a lot of reasons not to panic. Here’s why you should, and shouldn’t, be terrified. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock (she/her) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Jp Lynch, Friso, Cye Stoner, Eric Jensen, Chris Mackey, J.V. Rosenbalm, Adam Brainard, Alan Wong, Bethany Matthews, David Johnston, Jaap Westera, Reed Spilmann, Toyas Dhake, Chris Curry, Matt Curls, Garrett Galloway, Blood Doctor Kelly, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters, Kevin Knupp, Steve Gums, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Joseph Ruf, Jason A Saslow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/scishow.bsky.social #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQumLYsR8IlAgS6NowaZqQ6kpNCGgWqpZ4zpcw4AF5A6WVvxKTHksjCIqcE9S1uNyDBNYhSswBLuLOi/pub