+- Scivillage.com Casual Discussion Science Forum (https://www.scivillage.com)
+-- Forum: Culture (https://www.scivillage.com/forum-49.html)
+--- Forum: Games, Sports & Hobbies (https://www.scivillage.com/forum-53.html)
+--- Thread: Why You Shouldn't Eat a Slug (dietary hobbies) (/thread-5189.html)
Why You Shouldn't Eat a Slug (dietary hobbies) - C C - Apr 13, 2018
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/dont-eat-slugs-snails-rat-lungworm-brain-parasite-health-science/
EXCERPT: Sam Ballard was 19 years old when friends at a party dared him to swallow a slug. Within days, the Australian teen developed a rare form of meningitis and fell into a coma that lasted more than a year. Even after waking up, he remains paralyzed from the neck down. The culprit, doctors said, was a parasite in the slug called a rat lungworm, which can burrow into the human brain. Ballard isn’t alone, or even the only person infected on a dare—at least three reported cases involve boys or young men who were dared to eat a slug or snail. What’s more, the parasite is now spreading to new places around the globe.
MORE: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/dont-eat-slugs-snails-rat-lungworm-brain-parasite-health-science/
RE: Why You Shouldn't Eat a Slug (dietary hobbies) - Syne - Apr 13, 2018
Darwin award recipient.
RE: Why You Shouldn't Eat a Slug (dietary hobbies) - Magical Realist - Apr 19, 2018
They ate sea slugs on the immunity challenge of Survivor last nite. One girl swallowed one whole. I was just thinking.. NOOOO!...RAT LUNG DISEASE!
RE: Why You Shouldn't Eat a Slug (dietary hobbies) - C C - Apr 19, 2018
(Apr 19, 2018 04:16 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: They ate sea slugs on the immunity challenge of Survivor last nite. I was just thinking..RAT LUNG DISEASE!
Most of their personal doctors are probably too lazy or time-strapped to bother trying to identify all the bloodstream and gut dwelling parasites which a contestant on average brings back from that show. At least that gunshot North Korean defector a few months ago was abundantly sporting them in a way that couldn't be ignored.
~