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Help! There's a worm in my brain

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C C Offline
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/a...-my-brain/

EXCERPT: You may have heard of the unfortunate Brit who discovered he had a tapeworm living in his brain. It took over four years for scientists to uncover what was wrong, and this took some exceptional detective work, all the while the worm was squirming across the man’s brain. The tapeworm, called a sparganum, has never before been seen in the UK. It is more common in South East Asia, where people can get infected either by eating raw frogs or reptiles, or using a balm made from raw frog meat directly on their eyes. Here are two perspectives on the unusual discovery, the pathologist who first discovered the worm, and the scientist who helped to sequence the worm’s genome, which revealed a lot about how to treat this pesky invader, and some insights into its private life....
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Magical Realist Offline
Quote:or using a balm made from raw frog meat directly on their eyes.

Ahh yes..the Jergen's Raw Frog Meat Wrinkle cream. Good for crow's feet! Use only as directed.
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Yazata Offline
A worm in your brain! It's hard to imagine anything worse than that.

I don't think that these things eat their way through your brain like earthworms. They form cysts in which the worms live, curled up. Tapeworms don't have mouths or guts, they absorb their food through their skins, that's why they like to live in people's intestines. Unfortunately, people can have lots of them in their brains. They can produce seizures.

Speaking of eyes, tapeworms can live in cysts in the eyes too, sometimes causing blindness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysticercosis
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(Mar 8, 2015 04:09 AM)Yazata Wrote: A worm in your brain! It's hard to imagine anything worse than that.

I don't think that these things eat their way through your brain like earthworms. They form cysts in which the worms live, curled up. Tapeworms don't have mouths or guts, they absorb their food through their skins, that's why they like to live in people's intestines. Unfortunately, people can have lots of them in their brains. They can produce seizures.

Speaking of eyes, tapeworms can live in cysts in the eyes too, sometimes causing blindness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysticercosis

Not to be confused with Sisterpsychosis, an ailment afflicting little brothers who hide rubber snakes in sororal panty drawers.




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