Brain Worms!!

[Susurrus]

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Obviously not since the Doc says that there are more and more cases of people getting worms removed from their brain... WASH YOUR HANDS PEOPLE!!!!!!!

May I wash your hands?

[Akashimo]

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And that adds to my list of why I always always order/make food well done.

[DieselBoy09]

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Anyone know what "worm" it is? I'm guessing it is from the phylum nematoda, but couldn't find one that would really match it.

Yeah, there are a lot of things you can contract from other people, but in all honesty, be more afraid of undercooked meat and contaminated water sources. If you knew about all the things that could potentially be in undercooked pork, you would stay away from the meat. Fowl ftw.
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Just a fun fact but it is estimated that more than 1/3 of the human population carriers some sort of parasitic infection. In fact, most of you as children had an intestinal parasitic worm infection called pinworms.

[Durahansolo]

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*Michael Jackson

Fixed.

Why does this story remind me of the myth about earwig bugs burrowing into people's brains through their ears .

[Yellow Mage]

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And the worms, ate in to his brain . . .

[Szkol]

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This totally ruined pork for me...

I LOVE a good roasted pork loin, medium... and last night I made bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin for dinner... done med-well!

GODAMMIT! Now i'll have to eat dried out WD pork for the rest of my life... thanks TGM, for ruining pork forever!

[Durahansolo]

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This totally ruined pork for me...

I LOVE a good roasted pork loin, medium... and last night I made bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin for dinner... done med-well!

GODAMMIT! Now i'll have to eat dried out WD pork for the rest of my life... thanks TGM, for ruining pork forever!

Obviously not since the Doc says that there are more and more cases of people getting worms removed from their brain... WASH YOUR HANDS PEOPLE!!!!!!!

You're also more likely to be struck by lightning then get this from pork.

Under cooked pork too! Now you can never eat pork again unless you make it yourself! (Seriously its more likely that you'll come across this from the pork than the handwashing.)

ABC News: It's Not a Tumor, It's a Brain Worm

Late last summer, Rosemary Alvarez of Phoenix thought she had a brain tumor. But on the operating table her doctor discovered something even more unsightly -- a parasitic worm eating her brain.

Doctors say the worm could have come from eating tainted food.


Alvarez, 37, was first referred to the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix with balance problems, difficulty swallowing and numbness in her left arm.
An MRI scan revealed a foreign growth at her brain stem that looked just like a brain tumor to Dr. Peter Nakaji, a neurosurgeon at the Barrow Neurological Institute.
"Ones like this that are down in the brain stem are hard to pick out," said Nakaji. "And she was deteriorating rather quickly, so she needed it out."
Yet at a key moment during the operation to remove the fingernail-sized tumor, Nakaji, instead, found a parasite living in her brain, a tapeworm called Taenia solium (There you go Dieselboy), to be precise.

"I was actually quite pleased," said Nakaji. "As neurosurgeons, we see a lot of bad things and have to deliver a lot of bad news."
When Alvarez awoke, she heard the good news that she was tumor-free and she would make a full recovery. But she also heard the disturbing news of how the worm got there in the first place.
Nakaji said someone, somewhere, had served her food that was tainted with the feces of a person infected with the pork tapeworm parasite.

"It wasn't that she had poor hygiene, she was just a victim," said Nakaji.

Pork Tapeworms a Small, But Growing Trend

"We've got a lot more of cases of this in the United States now," said Raymond Kuhn, professor of biology and an expert on parasites at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. "Upwards of 20 percent of neurology offices in California have seen it."
The pork tapeworm has plagued people for thousands of years. The parasite, known as cysticercosis, lives in pork tissue, and is likely the reason why Jewish and Muslim dietary laws ban pork.
Kuhn said whether you get a tapeworm in the intestine, or a worm burrowing into your brain can depend on how you consumed the parasite.

How Humans Get Worms

Eat the parasite in tainted meat and you'll end up eating the larvae, called cysts. Kuhn said in that case, a person can only end up with a tapeworm.
"You can eat cysts all day long and it won't get into your brain," said Kuhn. Instead, the larvae go through the stomach and mature in the intestine.
"When it gets down into their small intestine, it latches on, and then it starts growing like an alien," said Kuhn.
Once there, the tapeworm starts feeding and gets to work. A single tapeworm will release 50,000 eggs a day, most of which usually end up in the toilet.
"They can see these little packets pass in their feces," said Kuhn. "And ... sometimes people eat the eggs from feces by accident." (Ewwww)
Kuhn said it is then feces-tainted food, and not undercooked pork, that leads to worms burrowing into the brain.
Unlike the cysts, the eggs are able to pass from the stomach into the bloodstream. From there, the eggs may travel and lodge in various parts of the body -- including the muscle, the brain or under the skin -- before maturing into cysts themselves.
According to Kuhn, who has traveled to study this parasite, cysticercosis is a big problem in some parts of Latin America and Mexico where health codes are hard to enforce and people may frequently eat undercooked pork.
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As people travel across the border with Mexico for vacation and work, Kuhn said so does the tapeworm. One person infected with a parasite, who also has bad hand washing habits, can infect many others with eggs.
"These eggs can live for three months in formaldehyde," said Kuhn. "You got to think, sometimes, a person is slapping lettuce on your sandwich with a few extra add-ons there."

Getitng the Worms Out

Dr. Christopher Madden, an assistant professor in the University of Texas Southwestern department of neurological surgery in Dallas, has operated on a number of these cysts himself. He said not every worm needs to be surgically removed; those whose location is not an immediate threat to the patient's health can be treated with medications that cause the worms to die.

But when the cysts are in problematic locations, as was the case for Alvarez, an operation is necessary. Fortunately, the long-term prgnosis for most patients is positive.
"Most patients we see actually do very well with medicines and/or surgery to take out a large cyst," Madden said.
Alvarez is not alone in accidentally eating tainted food, but Nakaji rarely sees cases so severe that people require surgery. Nakaji said he only removed six or seven worms in neurosurgery this year.
"But lodging in the brain stem is bad luck," he said.
Nakaji said other parts of the brain have more "room" or tissue to expand around a growing cyst. However the brain stem, which is crucial to life, is only the width of a finger or two.
"She could have recovered," said Nakaji. "But if the compression lasted for long enough, she could have been left permanently disabled or dead."

I think this is more informative than the Fox interview. So apparently it wasn't the undercooked pork, it was the actual egg feces with the food that caused the worm.

[TheGrandMom]

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Anyone know what "worm" it is? I'm guessing it is from the phylum nematoda, but couldn't find one that would really match it.

No thats a roundworm. While it could be that, it wasn't. It was more likely a tapeworm. I got a big kick out of her "It would have eaten through my brain like an apple." comment. LOL Tapeworms just don't work in that manner. But it would have kept increasing in size and causing her more problems. Being so close to the brain stem, it is very likely she would have died fairly soon.

EDIT: Just read the wall o' text by Dura and they did confirm it was a tapeworm. *shudders*

GODAMMIT! Now i'll have to eat dried out WD pork for the rest of my life... thanks TGM, for ruining pork forever!

Has anyone went around and looked at some of the videos on the internet about tapeworms, "why you shouldn't eat pork" messages, and other stuff? There is some truly disgusting stuff out there so have a strong stomach if you do.

I will say this, you should be more aware of what you are eating. You wouldn't believe the garbage that is going into your body. Feces, worms, insect larvae, etc are all in the processed foods you are eating too. Our standard for monitoring our food has gone down the shitter and stuff is slipping through regularly.

[Ojofer]

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My point exactly, ppl on ships are nasty so I carry around a bottle of sanitizing lotion everywhere I go when I'm at work and I still wash my hands before I eat. It's just not something I wanna have to talk about with my friends. "Why is Petty Officer Mondry sick? Oh Sir, he has a worm in his brain" EWWWWW.... lol

[TheGrandMom]

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My point exactly, ppl on ships are nasty so I carry around a bottle of sanitizing lotion everywhere I go when I'm at work and I still wash my hands before I eat. It's just not something I wanna have to talk about with my friends. "Why is Petty Officer Mondry sick? Oh Sir, he has a worm in his brain" EWWWWW.... lol

See I'm not anal about this. This is kind of how I look at it......If you raise yourself in a sterile enviroment, then you will be more susceptible to pathogens if you are ever exposed to them. Your body won't be able to fight them off as effectively. I'm sure you've seen War of the Worlds. LOL I'm going along those lines but not so drastic. Now this doesn't mean I'm a filthy pig that never washes. I'm just saying I wash my hands after using the bathroom and before I eat but hand sanitizer is something I won't touch unless there is no soap and water available. So that begs the question, do you have soap and water on those ships, Petty Officer Mondry?

As for the tapeworm issue, you're more likely to get them from the food you eat, than from someone else. The food is the issue but in that video they made hand washing the issue. If the delved into the food issue, they'd have to expose how badly we are monitoring what goes into our bodies. That would piss off a lot of people up high.

[Susurrus]

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I hear tape worms are a great way to lose weight.

[Mhurron]

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I hear tape worms are a great way to lose weight.

[Armando]

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You got my thanks just because of how "what" that is.

[TheGrandMom]

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Yes, tapeworms/eggs for weight loss were a short fad back in the early 1900's. That is so incredibly sick. Even today in some countries, they still ingest them for weight loss. Many times people become bloated in the abdominal area when they have tapeworms, which I would think is counter productive to the result they want. LOL You may be losing weight but still have a big belly!

[KingOfZeal]

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Reminds me of using leeches to lower blood pressure.