How does a worm go from your stomach, into your brain? That doesn’t make sense.
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Carnelian@lemmy.world 2 years agoApparently just eating an enormous amount of tuna + picked up the worm larva from some undercooked pork!
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 years ago
silence7@slrpnk.net 2 years 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
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Terrifying! What the fuck, nature?
TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s called neurocysticercosis. Here’s some info from the CDC.
beefsquatch@programming.dev 2 years ago
One could even say… too much tuna?