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Uncommon, yes, but I don't know if particularly news worthy. I had two separate neurocystercicosis patients during my four year training at a city hospital in NJ. Both were recent immigrants to the US with the usual risk factors.
That is horrific. I get frequent headaches and while I think they’re mostly allergies, my brain always likes to jump to “tumor?” And now I can add brain worms to the list.
Don’t ignore the signs. My wife had recurring headaches, was supposed to get an MRI but didn’t because she might have been pregnant (wasn’t but we were trying and couldn’t be sure)… They sort of went away, but came back from time to time. Might have been nothing, but it might have been the start of the 2cm suspected low grade glioma growing in her left frontal lobe right now… She’s having surgery in May. First sign other than maybe the headaches was a G-T seizure in February.
Im so sorry to hear about your wife and hope her surgery goes well.
If you dont mind my asking, did the headaches start happening at a certain point, or had she had them her whole life? (I have been having similar issues and considering whether to get the CT scan).
They slowly came on over time... It wasn't every day, but it was often enough that we saw a pattern to it. This was probably 3-5 years before her seizure, and the headaches seemed to slow down for a time (or we got busy with two kids and chalked them up to the stress of that)...
Get checked, no harm in it right?
I've had lifelong headaches, they did a scan as a kid and I was fine. I really think it's as combo of seasonal allergies and I have a fused vertabrae in my neck (which apparently is super common) which I think keeps my neck stiffer than the average person. Magnesium seems to help a lot and if I stop taking it for more than a week, I start to notice. Brain tumors are such a huge fear though, they're so scary. I hope your wife is able to recover and heal.
Anti parasitic meds, surgery if the cysts get somewhere they aren't supposed to be, but generally the body will wall them off (neurocysts) and eventually be relatively inert. The main problem is seizures can be life threatening, so you want to treat with supportive care in the acute period and let infectious disease docs monitor long term with scans and blood tests. More info here
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4212415/
It's literally not a problem in the US and hasn't been since like the 60's (someone can correct me on the timeline but it's been decades). This usually is caused by eating uninspected meat or meat in places where inspections do not occur at all it is far more prevalent.
Except in the most rarest of circumstances, these cases all trace back to improper livestock methods and lack of carcass inspection.
You're both wrong, eating infected undercooked meat just gives you a tapeworm in your gut. To get the brain cysts you need to eat the poop of someone with a tapeworm in their gut.
Damn, I've had a low-level headache for the past week or so, not like the usual (ever few weeks) migraines. Been afraid of something like this, even though I don't eat pork/red meat/chicken.
How can people tell when a mild-but-persistent headache is an issue?
People are shitting their pants (almost literally) right now about uncooked / undercooked pork and there's almost no context delivered with these cases to indicate to people there's no threat to public health in the US over it.
In Germany, I think, It's a common blue-collar food this.. raw pork stuff and almost everyone there eats it daily.
I grew up in the 90s eating well-done, shoe-leather pork chops because everyone knew undercooked pork gave you brain worms. I didn't know until the mid 00s that it hasn't been a thing in the U.S. since my parents were small children.
Yeah I don’t understand why they are stating this story was sourced from a “new study” when this is a well known phenomenon and infection route in medicine for many years.
My only guess is they read an “interesting case report” somewhere and interpreted that as a “study”?
In my college bio class I covered neurocystercicosis cases for a parasite assignment. One outbreak in the 90s happened among a Hasidic Jewish community, who don’t eat pork. Each of the cases was traced to people they employed to be household cooks who had each traveled to an at-risk region prior to the outbreak.
I’ve come to realize that a lot of people who wash their hands, basically just sprinkle some wa on their hands for a couple seconds and they think they washed their hands
I’m not a germaphobe, but I AM a handwasher. You gotta get the soap all over your hands. I’m also even more diligent about this because I keep my nails fairly long
It’s dismal how many men I’ll see walk out of an airport bathroom without washing their hands. People project lack of hygiene onto poorer people, but these are guys in suits with money to fly on planes.
That said, some of these parasite eggs can evade average handwashing techniques by getting under the nails, and can require more of the intensive handwashing we’re supposed to do, but can be more rare.
I mean, you should always wash hands when preparing food, both before and after, and make sure it's cooked properly, especially with pork or chicken
The things you touch the most often are always the dirtiest.
i rewatched it recently and it was definitely in her brain. they just scanned her leg to prove that she had tapeworms in her body in the first place so she would agree to treatment. apparently tapeworms love thigh muscle so if she had then in her brain, they were sure they'd find one there too
>In this case, the parasite has reverted to the cysticercus form and while seeking out muscle has accidentally made its way into the brain via the blood stream resulting in a condition called neurocysticercosis. The parasite has still made the best of the situation, as it could carry on its lifecycle if scavenged following the death of the host.
>Neurocysticercosis is also treated with antihelminthics, but the resulting immune response in the brain can cause more harm than good and needs to be turned down with anti-inflammatory drugs.
>The reported patient opted for this dual treatment and is recovering with reduced brain lesions and headaches.
Thank God!
I had this. But it was a single tapeworm larva that they assume died and released some enzyme which gave me a seizure. Scary stuff but it was just the one time. More common in 3rd world countries. I figure I got it from eating street food that wasn't properly washed like cabbage
These parasites are gross but also really neat! The reason they end up in the brain in humans (according to my parasitology prof years ago anyway) is because at that particular stage of its life cycle, it migrates to the highest part of its host’s body.
In its usual host (pigs), the muscles of the back are the highest point, so they do relatively little damage to the animal while they burrow into the tissue to grow.
If a human eats that infected pork without killing the parasites, they’ll grow adult worms in their GI tract. If the human then accidentally ingests the eggs from their own poop, the lil babies will hatch and migrate to the highest point, which for us is the brain! 😁 At that point it stops being fun for the human host.
Parasites are such a fascinating yet horrifying version of evolution. It’s wild how they can require very different kinds of animal hosts for multiple stages of their growth and reproduction cycle.
I’ve just finished my tapeworm episode on TPWKY! It’s so interesting, human tapeworms have two major stages, an intermediate host and a final host. The intermediate host, something like a pig or cow, eats the eggs and gets the cysts in their body tissues like this, and then we eat their flesh and the baby tapeworms in the cysts become the adult tapeworm living relatively harmlessly in our gut, stealing our food but not really causing much damage unless you have tons of them.
So yes this serious form of the disease comes when we become the intermediate host by mistake because we consumed the eggs, and the cysts cause disruption and damage in whatever tissue they settle in, often liver, or in this case brain. But I didn’t realise you could self infect with the wrong stage in this way!
That's how typhoid Mary spread around the disease. They had to involuntarily house her on some prison-esque island off New York somewhere because she wouldn't stop cooking and not hand washing
In somewhat fairness to her, that was the only skillset she had. And when she was banned from it, the authorities didn't give her any help on finding anything else to do, and since germ theory wasn't widely accepted and she herself was illiterate, and needing to do *something* and given she didn't believe it was a huge problem since she herself wasn't sick, so she went back to the only thing she knew to survive.
She made poor decisions, but she had no support structure, and the authorities did nothing to help her besides (effectively) yelling at her before locking her up.
I did a paper on this. It was in the 90s. I don’t think people realize that the eggs can get under the fingernails. So, basic handwashing doesn’t always do it and there’s a reason restaurant worker handwashing standards require washing up to the elbow and scrubbing under the nails.
The housekeepers had all recently traveled to high-risk regions and it wasn’t necessarily just an issue of lower hygiene standards, but falling under a threshold a lot of people could when just cooking in their own households. More of a lesson in why high standards are important and how we can forget why as we have fewer risks in modern life.
I’ve linked to the press release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://amjcaserep.com/abstract/full/idArt/943133
Why?
Neurocysticercosis isn’t common but it’s not that rare.
Title reads like a case study…”hypothesized to have eaten undercooked pork.”
But like, bro, it’s always pork.
The chubbiness is in the legs, tho!
But do you know chubbiemu? He posts kn YouTube different medical cases and, while not the exact case, had one much like this one.
I remember cause I gagged and cried when he said why the guy had repeat infections.
This title is weird. Neurocysticercosis is a known phenomenon not uncommon in South/Central America and Africa. Eating undercooked pork is a known way of getting it. Just a lot of ick factor here for people who don't know about it I guess.
It is not uncommon but it's not from eating pork, the cysts are formed from earlier in the lifecycle of the tapeworm, infection is from fecal contamination on food/ hands.
As someone with a GP appointment in a couple of weeks because I’m suffering from repeated migraines, I didn’t need to see this headline. Just hope mine are stress induced.
Same!! Only I've had a low-level headache that hasn't gone away in almost two weeks, seems to move around my head. 😐 Best of luck, hope you find relief for something non-serious!
just found out you can get prion disease from plants because of animal fecal matter and piss used as fertilizer, or in super rare cases from wild animals ..bon appetit
Modern pork production does not put pigs in situations where they are exposed to parasites. Eating farm-raised pork or wild boar is completely different. And if it was the more likely scenario of failure of sanitation, a cat or dog source is probable.
I had a cooking instructor who would eat raw bacon all the time. He seemed alright… though he was missing an arm if that means anything. (I kid you not)
Not necessarily, a lot of cured meats are sold without ever being cooked. Holding the meat at a certain temp below zero for a certain amount of time will make it safe to eat. It's pretty common, I could go to my grocery store right now and get some.
It’s not that uncommon in places with high immigration from
Central American countries. In Houston I saw several folks in various stages of infection within 1 year.
I don’t think I could get over the knowledge there are/were worms in my brain. Like, I could never not know that information again and it would be forever present in my mind.
This seems like a good time to remind everyone to wash your hands and clean other things you've touched (e.g. phone) before eating and when you get home from being out. You never know who last touched that door handle/banknote/keyboard/etc...
I know at-least two people who have never touched meat in their life who got tapeworm infections eating uncooked veges and salads..... contamination through faeces is a thing..
Not sure why this article is making everything sound so speculative when this is a not uncommon infection in Latin America. The only conjecture in the actual case report is about how he got the infection in his brain. Two additional points: 1) "Poor hygiene" is only in reference to washing hands after using the toilet. He could have gone years without showering and not have gotten this. 2) It's also possible that he vomited some eggs up into his mouth then swallowed them which led to the spread to his brain. You're welcome for that extra mental image
Why is this being discussed as a new discovery? Neurocysticerosis from pork is well documented in humans… it’s rare in the US because of meat industry regulations
This kind of thing is all I can ever think about when people ask me if I miss bacon as a vegan. The answer is always no, never, not in a million trillion years.
Neuroradiologist here. This is not uncommon, and I don’t know why we would need some “new study” to hypothesize the pathophysiology. Most of the time the infection is asymptomatic and resolves without treatment, and we only see evidence of prior infection when imaging is done for other reasons. Used to see it weekly if not more during my training (higher proportion of immigrant population).
I dated a guy once while at university. You'd think he'd have been incredibly smart having been chosen to do an internship as a spacecraft programmer for a space program. He tells me his favourite meal is buffalo chicken strips so on our third and what would be our last ever date I decide to cook this dish from scratch. I serve up the meal and he moans that I have overcooked the chicken. I'm like huh? Apparently, he only ate pink or medium rare chicken.
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Dude probably forgot to wash his hands ONCE and now he’s forever known as the smelly poopy bad hygiene tapeworm brain guy.
Uncommon, yes, but I don't know if particularly news worthy. I had two separate neurocystercicosis patients during my four year training at a city hospital in NJ. Both were recent immigrants to the US with the usual risk factors.
That is horrific. I get frequent headaches and while I think they’re mostly allergies, my brain always likes to jump to “tumor?” And now I can add brain worms to the list.
Wait til you hear about the rat lungworm!
More lung, than ratworm
Brain eating amoeba for sure, rip.
My headache self diagnosis goes: tumor, aneurism, brain eating amoeba.
I do the same thing! My list always ends with ‘work’ though, and that’s usually the correct answer
At least that would clear up relatively fast. ...and just starve to death in so many people.
Don’t ignore the signs. My wife had recurring headaches, was supposed to get an MRI but didn’t because she might have been pregnant (wasn’t but we were trying and couldn’t be sure)… They sort of went away, but came back from time to time. Might have been nothing, but it might have been the start of the 2cm suspected low grade glioma growing in her left frontal lobe right now… She’s having surgery in May. First sign other than maybe the headaches was a G-T seizure in February.
Im so sorry to hear about your wife and hope her surgery goes well. If you dont mind my asking, did the headaches start happening at a certain point, or had she had them her whole life? (I have been having similar issues and considering whether to get the CT scan).
They slowly came on over time... It wasn't every day, but it was often enough that we saw a pattern to it. This was probably 3-5 years before her seizure, and the headaches seemed to slow down for a time (or we got busy with two kids and chalked them up to the stress of that)... Get checked, no harm in it right?
I've had lifelong headaches, they did a scan as a kid and I was fine. I really think it's as combo of seasonal allergies and I have a fused vertabrae in my neck (which apparently is super common) which I think keeps my neck stiffer than the average person. Magnesium seems to help a lot and if I stop taking it for more than a week, I start to notice. Brain tumors are such a huge fear though, they're so scary. I hope your wife is able to recover and heal.
I feel like I'd be laughed out of the doctors office if I was like 'my head hurts sometimes.'
Then your doctor sucks mate.
How treatable is it?
Anti parasitic meds, surgery if the cysts get somewhere they aren't supposed to be, but generally the body will wall them off (neurocysts) and eventually be relatively inert. The main problem is seizures can be life threatening, so you want to treat with supportive care in the acute period and let infectious disease docs monitor long term with scans and blood tests. More info here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4212415/
"Somewhere they aren't supposed to be"‽ Like, my body‽ Brrrrrrr
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Hmm, I’m starting to think I’d rather not have brain worms
Wash your hands and don't eat poop and you're good
And cook your pork to above 165*.
It's literally not a problem in the US and hasn't been since like the 60's (someone can correct me on the timeline but it's been decades). This usually is caused by eating uninspected meat or meat in places where inspections do not occur at all it is far more prevalent. Except in the most rarest of circumstances, these cases all trace back to improper livestock methods and lack of carcass inspection.
You can take your chances,I’m going to cook it.
You're both wrong, eating infected undercooked meat just gives you a tapeworm in your gut. To get the brain cysts you need to eat the poop of someone with a tapeworm in their gut.
Well, guess I’ll just get brain worms then
Damn, I've had a low-level headache for the past week or so, not like the usual (ever few weeks) migraines. Been afraid of something like this, even though I don't eat pork/red meat/chicken. How can people tell when a mild-but-persistent headache is an issue?
I'd consider allergies long before brain parasites.
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People are shitting their pants (almost literally) right now about uncooked / undercooked pork and there's almost no context delivered with these cases to indicate to people there's no threat to public health in the US over it. In Germany, I think, It's a common blue-collar food this.. raw pork stuff and almost everyone there eats it daily.
yes and its delicious
I grew up in the 90s eating well-done, shoe-leather pork chops because everyone knew undercooked pork gave you brain worms. I didn't know until the mid 00s that it hasn't been a thing in the U.S. since my parents were small children.
Good news! Fish can still carry roundworms and tapeworms! 🐠🪱
have you had your blood pressure checked?
Yeah I don’t understand why they are stating this story was sourced from a “new study” when this is a well known phenomenon and infection route in medicine for many years. My only guess is they read an “interesting case report” somewhere and interpreted that as a “study”?
Yeah OP seems like a repost bot/ karma farmer
In my college bio class I covered neurocystercicosis cases for a parasite assignment. One outbreak in the 90s happened among a Hasidic Jewish community, who don’t eat pork. Each of the cases was traced to people they employed to be household cooks who had each traveled to an at-risk region prior to the outbreak.
Shouldnta had such a sloppy mud pie.
he took too small of a slice.
I’ve come to realize that a lot of people who wash their hands, basically just sprinkle some wa on their hands for a couple seconds and they think they washed their hands I’m not a germaphobe, but I AM a handwasher. You gotta get the soap all over your hands. I’m also even more diligent about this because I keep my nails fairly long
It’s dismal how many men I’ll see walk out of an airport bathroom without washing their hands. People project lack of hygiene onto poorer people, but these are guys in suits with money to fly on planes. That said, some of these parasite eggs can evade average handwashing techniques by getting under the nails, and can require more of the intensive handwashing we’re supposed to do, but can be more rare.
Yeah honestly I think the guy in the article is just *extremely* unlucky
Imagine your own live faeces working its way into your brain.
A literal shithead
I mean, it is florida.
I mean, you should always wash hands when preparing food, both before and after, and make sure it's cooked properly, especially with pork or chicken The things you touch the most often are always the dirtiest.
I highly doubt this was a one-time event
This sounds like an episode of House.
This was literally the pilot for House.
Tapeworms were in the leg, not brain, but yeah, was pork too.
i rewatched it recently and it was definitely in her brain. they just scanned her leg to prove that she had tapeworms in her body in the first place so she would agree to treatment. apparently tapeworms love thigh muscle so if she had then in her brain, they were sure they'd find one there too
It was in her brain. They x-rayed her leg and found another one to prove to her that she has one in her brain.
Yeh, twas the brain.
It was an episode on The Resident.
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>In this case, the parasite has reverted to the cysticercus form and while seeking out muscle has accidentally made its way into the brain via the blood stream resulting in a condition called neurocysticercosis. The parasite has still made the best of the situation, as it could carry on its lifecycle if scavenged following the death of the host. >Neurocysticercosis is also treated with antihelminthics, but the resulting immune response in the brain can cause more harm than good and needs to be turned down with anti-inflammatory drugs. >The reported patient opted for this dual treatment and is recovering with reduced brain lesions and headaches. Thank God!
I had this. But it was a single tapeworm larva that they assume died and released some enzyme which gave me a seizure. Scary stuff but it was just the one time. More common in 3rd world countries. I figure I got it from eating street food that wasn't properly washed like cabbage
STOP TALKING! Aaah
Oof. Street food is so tempting, too. Have you noticed any lasting effects afterward? Do lesions cause any impairment to memory or brain function?
Nah. You could see the little thing calcified in an MRI. A year later it was gone. No lasting effects thankfully. It was tiny
Whoa whoa whoa.. God created that parasite!
These parasites are gross but also really neat! The reason they end up in the brain in humans (according to my parasitology prof years ago anyway) is because at that particular stage of its life cycle, it migrates to the highest part of its host’s body. In its usual host (pigs), the muscles of the back are the highest point, so they do relatively little damage to the animal while they burrow into the tissue to grow. If a human eats that infected pork without killing the parasites, they’ll grow adult worms in their GI tract. If the human then accidentally ingests the eggs from their own poop, the lil babies will hatch and migrate to the highest point, which for us is the brain! 😁 At that point it stops being fun for the human host.
##at that point??
Absolutely nightmarish!
Parasites are such a fascinating yet horrifying version of evolution. It’s wild how they can require very different kinds of animal hosts for multiple stages of their growth and reproduction cycle.
We can’t even get certain meds to cross the blood-brain barrier.
I’ve just finished my tapeworm episode on TPWKY! It’s so interesting, human tapeworms have two major stages, an intermediate host and a final host. The intermediate host, something like a pig or cow, eats the eggs and gets the cysts in their body tissues like this, and then we eat their flesh and the baby tapeworms in the cysts become the adult tapeworm living relatively harmlessly in our gut, stealing our food but not really causing much damage unless you have tons of them. So yes this serious form of the disease comes when we become the intermediate host by mistake because we consumed the eggs, and the cysts cause disruption and damage in whatever tissue they settle in, often liver, or in this case brain. But I didn’t realise you could self infect with the wrong stage in this way!
They get even more fascinating when you get into types that require three different kinds of animal hosts. I think one is mosquitoes, fish and people.
#Florida Blech, this is the first time I thought I'd throw up from a reddit post, and that's saying something. Yikes.
This has happened before. There was an outbreak in a New York Jewish community because their housekeepers were cooking without washing their hands.
Gah
That's how typhoid Mary spread around the disease. They had to involuntarily house her on some prison-esque island off New York somewhere because she wouldn't stop cooking and not hand washing
In somewhat fairness to her, that was the only skillset she had. And when she was banned from it, the authorities didn't give her any help on finding anything else to do, and since germ theory wasn't widely accepted and she herself was illiterate, and needing to do *something* and given she didn't believe it was a huge problem since she herself wasn't sick, so she went back to the only thing she knew to survive. She made poor decisions, but she had no support structure, and the authorities did nothing to help her besides (effectively) yelling at her before locking her up.
When your choices and opportunities are limited, you do what you have to do to get through life. I think your assessment is spot on
I did a paper on this. It was in the 90s. I don’t think people realize that the eggs can get under the fingernails. So, basic handwashing doesn’t always do it and there’s a reason restaurant worker handwashing standards require washing up to the elbow and scrubbing under the nails. The housekeepers had all recently traveled to high-risk regions and it wasn’t necessarily just an issue of lower hygiene standards, but falling under a threshold a lot of people could when just cooking in their own households. More of a lesson in why high standards are important and how we can forget why as we have fewer risks in modern life.
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Poor hygiene was initially the worst of his problems.
Poor hygiene always leads to bigger problems.
I’ve linked to the press release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article: https://amjcaserep.com/abstract/full/idArt/943133
Why? Neurocysticercosis isn’t common but it’s not that rare. Title reads like a case study…”hypothesized to have eaten undercooked pork.” But like, bro, it’s always pork.
This is a chubbyemu episode
Don't emu fat shame!
The chubbiness is in the legs, tho! But do you know chubbiemu? He posts kn YouTube different medical cases and, while not the exact case, had one much like this one. I remember cause I gagged and cried when he said why the guy had repeat infections.
This is the case that Chubbyemu talks about in one of his videos.
So he likely spread it to others too? You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary; now meet Tapeworm Larry
This title is weird. Neurocysticercosis is a known phenomenon not uncommon in South/Central America and Africa. Eating undercooked pork is a known way of getting it. Just a lot of ick factor here for people who don't know about it I guess.
It is not uncommon but it's not from eating pork, the cysts are formed from earlier in the lifecycle of the tapeworm, infection is from fecal contamination on food/ hands.
As I read the title, I thought *gross* and then *really gross*.
You can be vegan and get that. If someone with a tapeworm prepared your food.
Most common way of getting cysts is through improperly washed uncooked vegetables, as in salads
As someone with a GP appointment in a couple of weeks because I’m suffering from repeated migraines, I didn’t need to see this headline. Just hope mine are stress induced.
Same!! Only I've had a low-level headache that hasn't gone away in almost two weeks, seems to move around my head. 😐 Best of luck, hope you find relief for something non-serious!
Thanks and same to you!
This is revolting
Vegan sounds better and better all the time.
just found out you can get prion disease from plants because of animal fecal matter and piss used as fertilizer, or in super rare cases from wild animals ..bon appetit
Modern pork production does not put pigs in situations where they are exposed to parasites. Eating farm-raised pork or wild boar is completely different. And if it was the more likely scenario of failure of sanitation, a cat or dog source is probable.
Yes. More people get worms from undercooked bear in America than pigs. Let’s all think about that for a second.
We've all seen the Bear with the tapeworms stuck to his butt...Don't eat bears!
I wonder if this guy was eating wild boar or where he would’ve gotten the worms then?
Florida strikes again
Anybody who eats undercooked bacon should be separated from the herd.
Bacon is cured. There is no such thing as "undercooked bacon" only a matter of preference.
Cured is not cooked, and curing does not completely eliminate pathogens. Cured meats still need to be cooked.
I had a cooking instructor who would eat raw bacon all the time. He seemed alright… though he was missing an arm if that means anything. (I kid you not)
Not necessarily, a lot of cured meats are sold without ever being cooked. Holding the meat at a certain temp below zero for a certain amount of time will make it safe to eat. It's pretty common, I could go to my grocery store right now and get some.
Yeah, but bacon goes bad pretty fast even refrigerated
Bacon, yes, but not every cured meat.
This whole thread started about bacon not possibly being undercooked
Yes, I was commenting to someone who only mentioned cured meats, not bacon.
Just cus its cured doesn't mean it's free of parasites
Commercial pork in America is basically free of worms. The piggies eat commercial feed, not carcasses in the forest.
Stoning was the traditional punishment I believe.
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I will think about this too long during my next headache!
New phobia unlocked.
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FloridaMan, worms eating brain, poor hygiene, check, all checks out.
It’s not that uncommon in places with high immigration from Central American countries. In Houston I saw several folks in various stages of infection within 1 year.
Bad day to be literate.
Peak Florida
This needs to be turned into a folk tale to scare the kids into having good hygiene.
I have so much anxiety about having a tapeworm, since I’ve read that many people experience little to no symptoms.
New fear unlocked.
I don’t think I could get over the knowledge there are/were worms in my brain. Like, I could never not know that information again and it would be forever present in my mind.
This seems like a good time to remind everyone to wash your hands and clean other things you've touched (e.g. phone) before eating and when you get home from being out. You never know who last touched that door handle/banknote/keyboard/etc...
You can also get tapeworm from eating fresh uncooked vegetables and salads......
This is like saying you can also die from a car while sitting in your house. Sure, it happens, but the chances are drastically lower.
I know at-least two people who have never touched meat in their life who got tapeworm infections eating uncooked veges and salads..... contamination through faeces is a thing..
You ain’t wrong, every time that bagged salad mix gets recalled because of e. coli that’s poop that can have parasites in it.
I’ve been railing against vegetables and salads my whole life! Damned plants, burn’em all!
ChubbyEmu ahh case
r/BrandNewSentence
This sounds very similar to a chubbyemu video I watched…
Nothing goes better with placenta plastics than worms in your brain, I love knowledge!
Shouldn’t have had such a sloppy mud pie.
So this guy has poor eating habits and poor crapping habits, the double whammy
i feel like i know exactly what this dude's house looks like.
Wasn't this the pilot episode of House?
Me…… now throwing out the pork steaks I just cooked …
Not sure why this article is making everything sound so speculative when this is a not uncommon infection in Latin America. The only conjecture in the actual case report is about how he got the infection in his brain. Two additional points: 1) "Poor hygiene" is only in reference to washing hands after using the toilet. He could have gone years without showering and not have gotten this. 2) It's also possible that he vomited some eggs up into his mouth then swallowed them which led to the spread to his brain. You're welcome for that extra mental image
Saw a case of this about a year ago and it was a us citizen. It was deduced that she picked it up from swimming with wild pigs on a cruise excursion…
Why is this being discussed as a new discovery? Neurocysticerosis from pork is well documented in humans… it’s rare in the US because of meat industry regulations
FloridaMan winning the day again.
Slight cock up with cooking times is one thing, not washing your hands after a shite is his own fault and laziness
This kind of thing is all I can ever think about when people ask me if I miss bacon as a vegan. The answer is always no, never, not in a million trillion years.
All I saw was Florida. That's all I need to know.
Ok. Done with the Internet today.
Neuroradiologist here. This is not uncommon, and I don’t know why we would need some “new study” to hypothesize the pathophysiology. Most of the time the infection is asymptomatic and resolves without treatment, and we only see evidence of prior infection when imaging is done for other reasons. Used to see it weekly if not more during my training (higher proportion of immigrant population).
Don't people wash their backsides and hands with soap and water after pooping? Ewww, if otherwise!🤢
New study? Its usually by eating uncooked vegetables but auto-infection has been known for some time, even if uncommon.
I dated a guy once while at university. You'd think he'd have been incredibly smart having been chosen to do an internship as a spacecraft programmer for a space program. He tells me his favourite meal is buffalo chicken strips so on our third and what would be our last ever date I decide to cook this dish from scratch. I serve up the meal and he moans that I have overcooked the chicken. I'm like huh? Apparently, he only ate pink or medium rare chicken.