Comment on PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS

• pageflight@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Beth Mole, a writer at Ars Technica, has a fun example with Rat Lungworm: Burning in woman’s legs turned out to be slug parasites migrating to her brain.

  It started with a bizarre burning sensation in her feet. Over the next two days, the searing pain crept up her legs. Any light touch made it worse, and over-the-counter pain medicine offered no relief.

  and so on until it’s diagnosed, then some lifecycle/vector explanation:

  For instance, if a slug or snail traverses a leaf of lettuce, leaving a slime trail in its wake, the leaf can be contaminated with the larvae.

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  • PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think I read somewhere people can live of sun rays or some shit like that. 😆

    Damn parasites.

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yup, you’re especially at risk from liver worms from things like watercress and other usual parasites when animals defecate over crops, or from farmers use egg-infested water. Always wash and disinfect.

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