That sucks.
It’s the deaths that are SO unusual that must torture families the most.
My cousin’s sister in law died last year of the human version of Mad Cow disease!!
Like one in a million people get it.
Horrifying way to go. She went mad.
Don’t eat slugs.
Knowing... is half the battle.
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The things boys do. On a dare I once jumped off a 60 foot platform into a deep lake. I didn’t land exactly feet first, rather on my butt. It hurt so much, I thought I would be paralyzed (which I wasn’t, thank God)
On the bright side, it cured me of peer pressure forever....
I don’t know why
He swallowed the fly...
Between the ages of 10-30, I probably did a hundred things stupider than this (not more disgusting, but stupider) and I somehow made it through. I feel for this guy. Every stupid idea has a potential outcome way worse than you imagined.
In 2010, 19-year-old Sam, an avid rugby player, was drinking with Jimmy Galvin and several more of his Australian “mates” when a slug began crawling across Galvin’s concrete patio at his home in Sydney.
“We were sitting over here, having a bit of red wine appreciation night, trying to act as grown-ups,”
Rat lungworm disease is caused by a parasitic worm called Angiostronjilus cantonensis. As the name suggests, the parasite lodges in the lungs of rats and is later excreted in poop.
Along comes a slug, snail, freshwater crab, shrimp, prawn or frog, and either eats the rat dung or the parasite works its way into the creature infecting it. Fish, however, do not spread the parasite.
Humans can be infected if they eat the raw or undercooked contaminated animals, or vegetables carrying unseen snails or slugs that have not been thoroughly washed.
Terrible terrible
I read There were other deaths from that slug parasite, too, including a baby
Something toxic in that small area
He did a stupid kid dare and paid dearly for it. I’ve done stupid kid dares and got off lucky.
This is one reason humans who cooked their food tended to live longer and produce more offspring.
I lived in Japan for about a decade, and raw ocean fish was ok, but no raw crabs or shrimp, and no raw freshwater fish or shellfish. I had read about lungworms in college, and sewage contamination was always in the back of my mind.
If you buy escargo (snail) you get it in two cans. one can with all the shells and the other can with the cleaned and inspected snail. I think they are kept out of their shell and feed a special diet for a period of time.
I had a cambodian friend who’s family crossed the killing fields. He talked about eating slugs, snails, grass and worms. When he got to the U.S medical facilities for immigrants he had tapeworms, and other types of parasitic diseases.
The thing that makes you cry though is it started out with mother, father, 2 sisters and 1 brother. When they made it to safety only the mother, 1 sister and himself were alive. That’s where he ends the story.
Know your wild life. Especially in Australia, animals there play for keeps.
On the rare occasions I eat sushi, I try to wash it down with a double shot of Iwai or Suntory to pickle any bad critters.