PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS
PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS
PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS
RFK is that you?
What percentage of RFK is RFK?
...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
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.
That makes a ton more sense - thank you!
I would have assumed that perhaps it was a tracer at first.
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.
I became a vegetarian because of all the scary stuffs like this.
You can get all kinds of parasites from unwashed or underwashed produce.
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.
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.
i mean you can cook food before eating it
mmMmm pork sashimi
That’s just pre hot pot
kbbq larvae
thanks I hate it
Is this the place to drop my recommendation for Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer? It’s 25 years old, but a fascinating read.
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.
The audiobook is on Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12128143
Is there a cure?
incineration
Cures a lot of things. Tapeworms, covid, facism
Ah, the classic "scientists dicover cure in vitro"
Keep away from the pork sashimi y'all.
Uncooked meat? Not even once!
But how about a little mettigel?
Maid from ze Mett wizz ze Zwiebeln for spikes and ze little eyes made from ze Pfefferkörner.
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.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14318093/horrific-x-ray-zombie-tapeworms-undercooked-pork.html?ns_mchannel=rss
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170461#symptoms)
It's always pork.
Truth to the legends... there's a reason two separate religious codes banned consumption of pork.
He was such a gem
Delightful!
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.
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.
That sounds like a risk I am not willing to take
I think trichinosis (sp?) is rare these days, but dunno about all the other wriggly stuff
Sous vide is always an option
I can only speak about Germany, but Germany is one of the largest pork producers and consumers.
There is at least one mayor scandal every year about malpractice, lack of hygiene and/or abuse of workers at industrial animal farms and slaughterhouses. The number of government inspectors only is enough to allow for inspections about once every 20 years or so per business. Also in many cases inspections are done by the local veterinarians, who also have the farmers/slaughter houses as customers and have a clear conflict of interest.
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.
Nope.
Mett? Hackepeter?
Nope.
Crazy Germans.
Schweinemet (raw ground pork you spread on rolls) is relatively common in Germany. Kind of gross looking but I think it is quite unlikely to cause problems if you eat it quickly.
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..."
True, but it’s the most respectable source I came across when reverse image searching this meme. I guess we could have just stuck with the meme? It doesn’t give a lot of context.