What is Digg?310 Comments
- zerhynn, on 11/20/2008, -2/+181EEETTS NAAAUGHT A TUMAAAH.
- aaabbbsss, on 11/20/2008, -5/+124Braaaiiinnnssss.....braaaAAAAAAAIIIInnnnnsssss...
- codemonkeysteve, on 11/20/2008, -1/+119Are they sure it wasn't a Goa'uld?
- breadfred, on 11/20/2008, -10/+120'Although doctors don’t know exactly where Alvarez contracted the worm – they said it could come from eating undercooked pork or it can be spread by people who don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom'.
How the hell did it make it to her brains?
Oh yes, the obligitory:
Om nom nom nom... - asunesara, on 11/20/2008, -0/+99House would have been able to find it...or made a few diagnoses till she was about to die...but she would have survived and everyone would have lived cynically ever after.
- iamstudip, on 11/20/2008, -1/+84Khaaaaannnnnnn! Khaaannnnnn!!!!
- StrangeFamous, on 11/20/2008, -2/+84Maybe it's a zombie worm?
- TheDeepFriar, on 11/20/2008, -16/+96Awesome article = dugg
Fox News = bury
*head explodes* - lumpyup, on 11/20/2008, -0/+78According to my infectious disease course in med school, brain worms are fairly common... Especially in places like Mexico (for some reason), or anywhere they eat undercooked pork. The worm is called tinea solium and it burrows little holes all over your brain and even inside your tongue. On an MRI it looks like a head filled with a ton of little black dots... all worms. So in summary: beware of undercooked pork.
Pic: http://www.cbu.edu/~seisen/ParasitesOnParade_files ... - jmeller, on 11/20/2008, -0/+65Worms in the brain??? OPERATION!
- inactive, on 11/20/2008, -0/+64How is this not the first comment?? I'm disappointed in you guys.
- leerayIG88, on 11/20/2008, -1/+57are you going to eat that?
- soupwithafork, on 11/20/2008, -0/+49It's not lupus.
- KayinAngel, on 11/20/2008, -1/+41It probably does... you should just play it safe and stop eating.
- atomic811, on 11/20/2008, -3/+43lolworm says... I livez here play zombie
- DanteDefiance, on 11/20/2008, -0/+39Welp...I'm off to buy some earplugs.
- JoeVet, on 11/20/2008, -3/+39This idiot reporter and FoxNews were so excited about spreading a sensational story that they forgot about good journalism. What type of worm was it? Knowing that would lead to knowing how the woman was infested. Guess they were more interested in getting a good title than getting the story right.
- Simonspiro, on 11/20/2008, -0/+36I'm a parasitologist, so here're some answers for people asking technical questions:
1. It's a tape worm called Taenia (not Tinea, that's a fungus, or Trichinella, which is a roundworm and lives in muscle) solium. The adult form lives in human guts, the immature form in pigs muscle and brains.
2. When a pig eats the microscopic eggs (or even whole segments of the worm that shed off about 6 segments a day) it get infected with the larvae. These burrow out of the intestine and head to muscle and brain where they from fluid filled cysts (as seen here). They look nothing like worms now, just little worm heads floating in the fluid.
3. When a human eats a cyst in undercooked meat they get infected with the larva- it grows to it's adult length (which can be several metres) and begin to shed eggs in their faeces.
4. The eggs are very sticky and very durable, so they can survive on unwashed hands for hours. If they end up in your food you eat them and the worm thinks you're a pig! Thus its larvae go into your brain and muscles as above. This beneficial in the pig because a dying pig is easier for human hunters to catch, so it does the worm good to slowly kill pigs- it's a dead end for both of you if it ends up in the human.
5. There is also a beef version, Taenia saginata, but this only forms cysts in muscle so is far less harmful.
6. cooking food thoroughly, freezing it first and scrupulously kitchen and personal hygiene should help you remain uninfected.
7. It is very rare where I am (UK), but is prevalent in Africa and the Far East, or where ever humans and pigs live very close together (ie where pigs can eat human faeces).
8. don't have nightmares. - pirategonzo, on 11/20/2008, -0/+33Cook it.
- wolfing, on 11/20/2008, -0/+32damn chinese hackers, putting worms in our computers wasn't enough!
- girldrinkdrunk, on 11/20/2008, -0/+29A real mind *****, eh?
- sig331, on 11/20/2008, -0/+28Penetrating her brain, eh?
- crawfishsoul, on 11/20/2008, -0/+28It's never lupus.
- ceredron, on 11/20/2008, -2/+28It could be lupus
- inactive, on 11/20/2008, -1/+27KILL IT WITH FIRE
- ashfish, on 11/20/2008, -0/+25What normally happens in this type of case is she either ingested the eggs, or came into contact with someone who was carrying them and then transferred them into her body by putting her fingers in her mouth or nose. From there the eggs hatch, usually in the intestines since they are more commonly ingested, and from there the larva will migrate through the body until it finds a place it likes. This time it happened to be in the brain stem. YAY PARASITES!
Always be sure your food is thoroughly cooked and that you wash your hands cause no one likes uninvited dinner guests. - atgmac, on 11/20/2008, -4/+28*asplodes
- macsox, on 11/20/2008, -0/+231. Person A has worms, whose eggs come out in poop.
2. Person A poops.
3. Person A wipes butt with hand.
4. Person A doesn't wash hands.
5. Person A touches you.
6. Person A poop is now on your hand.
7. You eat a french fry.
8. Poop from Person A is in your mouth.
Happy Thanksgiving! - uptwolait, on 11/20/2008, -4/+25Good lord, I about gagged when I saw that picture.
- Reapz, on 11/20/2008, -0/+20The Yeerk are invading!
- musicmanryan, on 11/20/2008, -0/+20I am still shuddering at the thought a worm wriggling its slimy way up my brainstem, and the only way I know it is there is if I get numbness and my vision blurs. *shudders again* That is f***ed up!
- okitasan, on 11/20/2008, -1/+18or a Yeerk!
- mr0nine2five, on 11/20/2008, -0/+17It's never lupus. Unless its that one episode where it actually was lupus.
- leerayIG88, on 11/20/2008, -1/+17I think im done eating pork.
- analogkid01, on 11/20/2008, -11/+27Probably from watching Fox News, ironically.
- THETEH, on 11/20/2008, -0/+16That was absolutely disgusting.
- StaticThunder, on 11/20/2008, -0/+15The blood brain barrier keeps out molecules that might diffuse into it, not macroscopic objects. A worm would merely need to force, chew or grow its way through a thin semi-permeable membrane.
- Chaotyk, on 11/20/2008, -2/+17Wasn't this an episode of House, M.D.?
- sanman, on 11/20/2008, -2/+17I just thought of a more effective way to scare the terrorists than waterboarding...
- antistupid, on 11/20/2008, -0/+15SMOKER!
- ashfish, on 11/20/2008, -0/+14They actually did do an episode where a woman had a worm in her that was causing all sorts of fun stuff to happen. Can't remember where it was in her body though.
- voyetra8, on 11/20/2008, -1/+15Hermes: On to new business. Today's mission is to go to the brain slug planet.
Zoidberg: What are we going to do there?
Hermes: Nothing. Just walk around not wearing a helmet. - DiggzDE, on 11/20/2008, -0/+13Also, don't snort lumpy coke. Very well could have worm eggs hanging out in it. So chop it good.
- inactive, on 11/20/2008, -0/+12Bacon trees.
Our scientists keep trying to cure things like cancer, but I'm telling you.
We need bacon trees. - latticebug, on 11/20/2008, -0/+12I'm actually scared. How do we know the food we are eating doesn't contain worms?
- sockpuppets, on 11/20/2008, -0/+12I just barfed in my mouth a little.
- skintigh, on 11/20/2008, -2/+14How the hell does a worm get past the blood-brain barrier?!?! It filters out microscopic impurities, never mind worms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood-brain_barrier - AndrewMoyer, on 11/20/2008, -1/+12Yeah, after not seeing it above the fold, I was starting to think I'd have to post it.
- zadadka, on 11/20/2008, -0/+11But, but..........BACON !!!!!!!!!!
- algaeturd, on 11/20/2008, -0/+10What lessons are those exactly? Don't let worms in your brains?
-
Show 51 - 100 of 312 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is 