RFK is that you?
PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS
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Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What percentage of RFK is RFK?
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 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
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 2 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.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That makes a ton more sense - thank you!
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would have assumed that perhaps it was a tracer at first.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 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.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I became a vegetarian because of all the scary stuffs like this.
ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can get all kinds of parasites from unwashed or underwashed produce.
pageflight@lemmy.world 2 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.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 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.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 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.
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
You make it sound like you’re vegan because you didn’t like doing dishes, lol
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 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
elevenbones@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I like the danger
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
i mean you can cook food before eating it
devilish666@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That’s just pre hot pot
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
kbbq larvae
mectag@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
thanks I hate it
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 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.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 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.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The audiobook is on Hoopla: www.hoopladigital.com/title/12128143
Lojcs@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Is there a cure?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 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.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
daily consumption of raw sashimi for many years
Ah, so not just from raw pork
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Ah so sometimes they turn themselves into pets.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Lauchmelder@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
incineration
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cures a lot of things. Tapeworms, covid, facism
towerful@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Ah, the classic “scientists dicover cure ^in vitro^”
Jollyllama@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Keep away from the pork sashimi y’all.
ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Uncooked meat? Not even once!
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Luccus@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 2 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)
logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s always pork.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Truth to the legends… there’s a reason two separate religious codes banned consumption of pork.
MycelialMass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He was such a gem
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 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.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Delightful!
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 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.
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
That sounds like a risk I am not willing to take
Elextra@literature.cafe 2 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.
whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
I think trichinosis (sp?) is rare these days, but dunno about all the other wriggly stuff
Saleh@feddit.org 2 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.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 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.
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Nope.
Mett? Hackepeter?
Nope.
Crazy Germans.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 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.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 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…”
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 2 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.