RFK is that you?
PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS
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Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
What percentage of RFK is RFK?
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 11 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
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 minutes 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.
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 11 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.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
That makes a ton more sense - thank you!
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I became a vegetarian because of all the scary stuffs like this.
ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You can get all kinds of parasites from unwashed or underwashed produce.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 hour 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.
pageflight@lemmy.world 8 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.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 13 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.
floo@retrolemmy.com 13 hours ago
You make it sound like you’re vegan because you didn’t like doing dishes, lol
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 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
elevenbones@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
I like the danger
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
That’s just pre hot pot
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
kbbq larvae
mectag@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
thanks I hate it
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 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.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 10 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.
Lojcs@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Is there a cure?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 hour 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.
Lauchmelder@feddit.org 7 hours ago
incineration
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Cures a lot of things. Tapeworms, covid, facism
ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Uncooked meat? Not even once!
Dasus@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 14 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)
logicbomb@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It’s always pork.
Dasus@lemmy.world 8 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.
MycelialMass@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
He was such a gem
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Delightful!
Valmond@lemmy.world 13 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.
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
That sounds like a risk I am not willing to take
Elextra@literature.cafe 13 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.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 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.
whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 11 hours ago
I think trichinosis (sp?) is rare these days, but dunno about all the other wriggly stuff
hansolo@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
Nope.
Mett? Hackepeter?
Nope.
Crazy Germans.