I swear almost every day I see a new case in the news about someone dying of a brain-eating amoeba or losing limbs to a flesh-eating bug they contracted while swimming in the ocean or white water rafting or something. And perhaps it's just me but it always seems to be North Carolina or Texas or somewhere like that. Have cases exploded over the last few years or are they just more prevalent on modern media? 

With the combination of a butterfly effect and widespread media...we now have instant coverage of the butterfly flapping it's wings.   The paradox is:  that with all of our media and watching the butterfly, everything must happen for a reason.  Yet at the same time nature defies this with randomness and chaos.  

I used to work for a lady who, if afflicted with this flesh eating disease, would still live for another 40 years...

I understand that there is more media coverage of everything these days. But that does not answer the question of whether or not the increase in flesh eating bug stories that I see is the result of more cases of the bug, or more media coverage. 

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Ever since the Enlightenment it's been a slow (un) raveling.  :D:D

The information should be here http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/index.html and http://www.cdc.gov/vibrio/index.html
 

Those Vibrio bacteria actually look quite tasty!

It's stuff that will in all likelihood never affect anyone you know. IMO it gets reported because it's "empathy p*~n" and some people are addicted to that sort of thing and it thus generates clicks on news web sites.

They obviously are not vegans.