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PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s always pork.

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      • Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • MycelialMass@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        He was such a gem

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Delightful!

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That sounds like a risk I am not willing to take

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      • Elextra@literature.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nope.

        Mett? Hackepeter?

        Nope.

        Crazy Germans.

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      • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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    • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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  • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    RFK is that you?

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What percentage of RFK is RFK?

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  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That makes a ton more sense - thank you!

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      • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I would have assumed that perhaps it was a tracer at first.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • ProvableGecko@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • pageflight@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I like the danger

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i mean you can cook food before eating it

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  • devilish666@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    mmMmm pork sashimi

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    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s just pre hot pot

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      • hypnicjerk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        kbbq larvae

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  • mectag@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    thanks I hate it

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  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Lojcs@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is there a cure?

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        daily consumption of raw sashimi for many years

        Ah, so not just from raw pork

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      • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ah so sometimes they turn themselves into pets.

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      • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        🎶 Oh, Sashimi
        They don’t believe me
        But you won’t let those tapeworms eat me 🎶

        (Geez, I can’t believe that even the 20th anniversary edition of that album was 3 year ago)

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    • Lauchmelder@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      incineration

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      • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Cures a lot of things. Tapeworms, covid, facism

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      • towerful@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Jollyllama@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Keep away from the pork sashimi y’all.

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  • ProvableGecko@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Uncooked meat? Not even once!

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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    • Luccus@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But how about a little mettigel?

      Maid from ze Mett wizz ze Zwiebeln for spikes and ze little eyes made from ze Pepferkörner.

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