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• I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Huh. I didn’t realize tapeworms could travel outside the digestive tract. Apparently it’s much more common with “pork tapeworm” and this poor guy is thought to have gotten in this situation by eating undercooked pork.

  dailymail.co.uk/…/horrific-x-ray-zombie-tapeworms…

  www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170461#symptoms)

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  • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s always pork.

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    • Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Truth to the legends… there’s a reason two separate religious codes banned consumption of pork.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Made me wonder what the AI overview would say when you google “you can only get a tapeworm from eating pork”, but it put the Sean Locke videos at the top and then and overview saying correctly that it’s not true.

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    • MycelialMass@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He was such a gem

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    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Delightful!

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  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Daily Mail commenting on a social media post is about as legitimate a news source as “a guy that was shouting at the bins behind the pub said…”

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A friend said there are no parasites (anymore) in European porc so you don’t need to over cook it, gotta try to find a credible source for that. He’s a chef and makes like lots of canned food and more on a semi industrial scale so It’s not nobody, but still I wonder.

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    • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That sounds like a risk I am not willing to take

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    • Elextra@literature.cafe ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In Japan, I’ve also had like medium pork katsu. So pork katsu not fully cooked. I’m sure there are higher quality porks different places. Def not something I will try in US.

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    • whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think trichinosis (sp?) is rare these days, but dunno about all the other wriggly stuff

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve heard that as well. It’s hard to figure out how many of the dissenting opinions are based on fact, and how many are outdated.

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nope.

      Mett? Hackepeter?

      Nope.

      Crazy Germans.

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  RFK is that you?

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What percentage of RFK is RFK?

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• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  …what’s actually making the cysts radiopaque? I wouldn’t have guessed tape worms or the damage they’re doing to soft tissue to be anywhere near that visible on x-ray

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  • SacralPlexus@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    With a lot of parasites, when they die the tissue around them calcifies (just your body’s response). That’s what we are seeing on the radiograph.

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    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That makes a ton more sense - thank you!

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    calcification, the immune system, combined with the parasite walling off the infection. the parasite itself secretes chemicals to suppress the local immune system, thats why you dont see massive immune response to so many. if the parasites suddenly die it can be a problem for the host. theres also studies going on that non-deadly parasites are result of modulating autoimmune diseases as well.

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• PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I became a vegetarian because of all the scary stuffs like this.

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  • ProvableGecko@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can get all kinds of parasites from unwashed or underwashed produce.

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    • pageflight@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not just this but definitely helped me in my journey. The whole idea of having to use separate cutting boards and knives just incase you get a terrible infection is totally insane.

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    • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You make it sound like you’re vegan because you didn’t like doing dishes, lol

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    • JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Same board three times: fresh veg on a clean board, raw veg after, then raw meat.

      I’m trying to do more vegetarian, but hey I made a single chicken boob stretch through a week meal prep so i think I’m doing ok

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    • elevenbones@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I like the danger

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  mmMmm pork sashimi

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s just pre hot pot

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    • hypnicjerk@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      kbbq larvae

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• mectag@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  thanks I hate it

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• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this the place to drop my recommendation for Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer? It’s 25 years old, but a fascinating read.

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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    https://bookshop.org/p/books/filth-irvine-welsh/8805998?ean=9780393318685&next=t

    Lovely fiction about the vilest cop in the world, partially narrated by his tapeworm.

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    • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The audiobook is on Hoopla: www.hoopladigital.com/title/12128143

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• Lojcs@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is there a cure?

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, but they won’t do anything to you once they get into the muscle. They’re accidental parasites that got into the wrong host instead of pray animals.

    These whipworms lodge deeply into the tissue waiting indefinitely for you to get eaten so they can break free from their capsule when stomach acid dissolves it, but since that probably won’t happen, your body calcifies them and they stay in place without pain or much harm other than activating your immune system.

    I think the worst is probably when they get into the brain, which can cause neuropathy and sometimes seizures. But besides being gross, they’re usually nothing to worry about.

    Of course, the image is of a Chinese man with a severe case of infestation that made the rounds from over-consuption of infected meat from a street vendor, iirc. The average person who’s infected usually has a handful at most and doesn’t show signs or symptoms.

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    • Asidonhopo@lemmy.world ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      daily consumption of raw sashimi for many years

      Ah, so not just from raw pork

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    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Ah so sometimes they turn themselves into pets.

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  • Lauchmelder@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    incineration

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Cures a lot of things. Tapeworms, covid, facism

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah, the classic “scientists dicover cure ^in vitro^”

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• ProvableGecko@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Uncooked meat? Not even once!

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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