It's pretty crazy that you can have a salad and then get infected with a brain dwelling parasite.
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Hawaii warns tourists of parasitic worm that can burrow into human brains
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It's pretty crazy that you can have a salad and then get infected with a brain dwelling parasite.
They're also in Florida. My roommate noticed tiny snails at the local blueberry patch, and I had to warn her about snails carrying parasites. After that I had to go through and individually inspect every blueberry while picking and before eating. And washed everything a few times.
I just read the wiki on the parasite, and I have some bad news -- it's proliferating globally since rats are, well, everywhere. It doesn't matter where you are or what you eat -- it's been encountered in Florida and New York, among other places, and anything can be cross-contaminated. Most straightforward means of prevention is to cook your food, or at the very least, wash it thoroughly.
There was a story of a college kid doing that on a dare, ended up braindead a few months later iirc
Humans are an accidental host, typically infected when they inadvertently eat an infected slug or snail that has slid into their salad fixings or other produce.
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The department recommends that visitors and residents carefully inspect and wash all produce and store it in sealed containers. It also recommends that farmers and gardeners try to control snail and slug populations.
This won't prevent every case, however. Officials noted that a person in one of the latest confirmed cases became infected in December of 2018 after purposely swallowing a slug on a dare. The other two cases, both from 2019, were suspected to be linked to eating homemade salads and "grazing" fruits and vegetables straight from the land.
OK, good to know.
Don't eat salad if I'm ever in Hawaii for a vacation.
Yeah it is a horrifying and sad story. It was worse than going braindead.
He never went braindead. He was in a coma for 420 days and came out of it quadriplegic and unable to regulate his own body temperature. He died eight years after the infection. Source
A kid in Australia swallowed a slug on the dare of his mates. He progressively got destroyed by rat lung worm. His went from a normal kid to handicapped and absolutely wrecked. He passed this year or last. Can't imagine being the friends who dared him to swallow the slug. They were wrecked . It took him 8 years to die
STORY here: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...stralian-man-sam-ballard-rat-lungworm-disease
I now look at slugs in dread and fear them.
STORY here: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...stralian-man-sam-ballard-rat-lungworm-disease
I now look at slugs in dread and fear them.
After reading "for 420 days" I thought this was a shitpost
Also reality imitates Futurama once again
Just a CDC link to prevent extreme paranoia and panic
Seafood doesn't carry the parasites. Clams and octopi are not eating rat poop.
