Submission + - Killer amoeba attack humans
An anonymous reader writes: It sounds like the story from a 50s horror film. The simplest form of life on earth, amoeba, are eating the brains of humans. But this is no joke: six people in the US have died this year, and the cause is probably global warming. FTA: "Even though encounters with the microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare, the spike in cases so far this year has worried health officials, who predict there will be more to come."