Ewww! Yuck!
Thank you for no pics.
I guess brain worms is endemic among democratics.
What kind of worm was it?
More bacon. The world needs more bacon.
Now that is unsettling. Wonder how it happened?
Heh. This reminds me of a very old TV show (Twilight Zone? Outer Limits?) in which a guy had a worm boring its way through his brain from one ear to the other. Through the whole show the guy was in excruciating pain.
At the end, the worm emerged from the other ear and the pain finally subsided. The doctor came into the guy’s room and told him the good news was that the worm had emerged. The bad news was that it was a female and had laid eggs in the center of his brain.
It is pretty common to get worms around the world... but how did it get into her head?
"Well, we can always just go fishing...."
The Botany Bay?
Never open attachments from an untrusted source and wash your hands!
The article doesn’t give enough info, but awhile back Discover channel had a show about parasites. In one segment there was a woman with similar sypmtoms, turned out she had a pork tapeworm that had migrated to her brain. She had picked it up somewhere south of the border (Guatamala maybe). It was really interesting, I think the show as called Eaten Alive. We used to show it to our biology students, it was suitably gross but interesting!
They had something like this not so long back on one the cable channels. I believe the woman was from the Dominican Republic originally and had made a trip back to visit. They think she ate some under cooked pork. I don’t know how long it took, but she started getting really bad headaches and then worse symptoms. It seems like it was some kind of tape worm that can infect the brain, eyes, etc. One guy had a big one coming out of his you know what after eating some undercooked fish on a camping trip. Then there was another guy that had some kind of parasite crawling across his eyeballs. He had gotten infected in some foreign country. Lots of nasty buggies out there.
Parasitology ping
Yeah but bacon tastes good
Sounds like a “House” episode.
Make sure you sleep with earplugs in.
How can I prevent trashiness's?
Cook meat products until the juices run clear or to an internal temperature of 170 o F.
Freeze pork less than 6 inches thick for 20 days at 5 o F to kill any worms.
Cook wild game meat thoroughly. Freezing wild game meats, unlike freezing pork products, even for long periods of time, may not effectively kill all worms.
Cook all meat fed to pigs or other wild animals.
Do not allow hogs to eat uncooked carcasses of other animals, including rats, which may be infected with trichinellosis.
Clean meat grinders thoroughly if you prepare your own ground meats.
Curing (salting), drying, smoking, or microwaving meat does not consistently kill infective worms.
****
Was telling the kids that freezing for 20 days would kill the worms and they were afraid I meant that this woman had to keep her head in a freezer for 20 days.