Comment on R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain

• Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Apparently just eating an enormous amount of tuna + picked up the worm larva from some undercooked pork!

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  • beefsquatch@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One could even say… too much tuna?

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How does a worm go from your stomach, into your brain? That doesn’t make sense.

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    • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They bite through the lining of the stomach and circulate with blood looking for tissue to develop inside of. They usually do this in pigs, but it sometimes happens in humans

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      • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Terrifying! What the fuck, nature?

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    • TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s called neurocysticercosis. Here’s some info from the CDC.

      www.cdc.gov/…/npis_in_us_neurocysticercosis.pdf

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