![]() ConsumedĬONSUMED is the emotional story of Jane’s past. SUNRISE details Benjamin’s return to his human roots, where he can no longer hide from the girl that stole his heart long ago. Terrified that his own special power has caused so much harm, Benjamin turns away from the world. In MASQUE, Carlisle helps Esme find hope for the future…and maybe even a family. As the conversation evolves, the history of their true and everlasting love is coyly revealed.Īfter her transformation, Esme’s struggle to overcome her craving for human blood is only intensified by the painful memories of her tragedy-ridden past. In WE’VE MET BEFORE, Alice and Jasper meet for the first time…or so it would seem. ![]() Set as a moody period drama with a pinch of Gothic mystery, THE MARY ALICE BRANDON FILE explores Alice’s resilient spirit as her dark past is revealed. You can enjoy all films below! The Mary Alice Brandon File There was a tremendous response (you can catch up on all the amazing details on Tongal’s website) and the result was seven amazing short films created by fourteen phenomenal female filmmakers. The goal was to address a larger need for more content by, for, and about women and to provide new female voices with an opportunity to be heard. In 2014, Stephenie teamed up with Lionsgate, Tongal, Women in Film and Facebook to create Storytellers: New Voices of the Twilight Saga. You can find lots of detailed information about all the character’s backstories in The Official Illustrated Guide (which is not in print at the moment but you can get a Kindle version here.) Symptoms can start one to 12 days after exposure, and death usually occurs within about five days.During the virtual book tour for Midnight Sun, Stephenie received a lot of questions asking for more details about many of the other characters in the Twilight series. The amoeba causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a brain infection with symptoms resembling meningitis or encephalitis that initially include headache, fever, nausea or vomiting - then progress to stiff neck, seizures and coma that can lead to death. “You can protect yourself by not jumping into water that gets up your nose, or use nose plugs.” “It is 97% fatal but 99% preventable,” said Dennis Kyle, professor of infectious diseases and cellular biology and director of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases at the University of Georgia. Both advised people to avoid jumping or diving into bodies of warm water, especially during summer, and to keep the head above water in hot springs or other “untreated geothermal waters” that pool in pocket canyons in the vast recreation area. “It cannot infect people if swallowed, and is not spread from person to person,” news releases from the two agencies said. The district and the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, which oversees the lake and the Colorado River, noted the amoeba only infects people by entering the nose and migrating to the brain. ![]() The district publicized the case on Wednesday, following confirmation of the cause from the CDC. 30 in the Kingman Wash area on the Arizona side of the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam. The Southern Nevada Health District did not identify the teen who died, but said he may have been exposed to the microscopic organism during the weekend of Sept. “People need to be smart about it when they’re in places where this rare amoeba actually lives.” The organism is found in waters ranging from 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 Celsius) to 115 degrees (46 C), he said. “I wouldn’t say there’s an alarm to sound for this,” Labus said. ![]() Only one was reported in Nevada before this week. Almost half those cases were in Texas and Florida. since 1962, said Labus, who teaches at the School of Public Health at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tallied just 154 cases of infection and death from the amoeba in the U.S. “It gets people’s attention because of the name,” former public health epidemiologist Brian Labus said of the naturally occurring organism officially called Naegleria fowleri but almost always dubbed the brain-eating amoeba. LAS VEGAS (AP) - The death of a Las Vegas-area teenager from a rare brain-eating amoeba that investigators think he was exposed to in warm waters at Lake Mead should prompt caution, not panic, among people at freshwater lakes, rivers and springs, experts said Friday. ![]()
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