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Man finds out migraines caused by brain tapeworms; undercooked bacon may be culprit
(www.nbcnews.com)
Wasnt this shit on House, MD?
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Does the curing process not kill them? This surprises me.
I posted this in a reply, but I'm reposting it here:
Bacon is already cooked when you buy it from the store (at least in america). The difference between "pork belly" and "bacon" is that bacon is cured and then smoked. That smoking process gets the temperature above the range to cook it.
Besides, even "chewy" bacon is going to get above the recommended pork cooking temp. It's so thin, it will reach that temperature very quickly. If it gets hot enough to start rendering the fat, it's definitely hot enough, and I have a hard time believing anyone would pull bacon out of the oven before it's had time to render some fat.
If you read the case report by the docs, they don't say "we think he got this disease from bacon".
Our patient’s lifelong preference for soft bacon may have led to instances of undercooked bacon consumption, but this would have caused him to develop taeniasis, an intestinal tapeworm, and not cysticercosis [1]. Taeniasis occurs when consuming undercooked pork and the larval cysts embedded within, while cysticercosis is contracted when humans ingest eggs found in the feces of other humans with taeniasis [1].
In other words, the brain version only comes from eating the eggs, which can only come from eating poop of someone who had the intestinal worms. They later specify that they think the most likely scenario is that he got the intestinal version, re-infected himself through the fecal-oral pathway, then somehow cured himself of the intestinal version.
Personally, I think the most likely scenario is that he got the parasite the same way you get any other disease that uses the fecal-oral pathway: contact with someone's inadequately washed hands, or eating food prepared by someone with inadequately washed hands.
Personally, I think the most likely scenario is that he got the parasite the same way you get any other disease that uses the fecal-oral
I thought you were going somewhere else with this...
Fear won't stop me, if she enjoys it, I'm tongue punchin' it.
That's my least favorite pathway.
Reminder to always wash your toys after playtime, people.
And no matter how clean the chocolate starfish claims to be, it is never clean enough
New fear unlocked
By candlelight I ate that pork I couldn't see danger on my fork Oh if you do love me completely Never again feed me food that will eat me
Pardon, I forgot to credit these lyrics: they are from "Trichonosis" by The Arrogant Worms
I'm wondering if this explains why my chewy-bacon eating father is a Trumper.
No, that's right. It's the fascism.
tapeworms are to fascist americans what the ratatouille rat was to that chef in the movie
Leela, I had worms. I needed to know who you loved. Me or them.
And I just watched House m.d. 1 part of 1st season last week :)
Hmmmm maybe I should stop eating a raw sausage every now and then.......
Tapeworms are not classified as STDs.
Tapeworm eggs are passed in feces, and there are sex acts involving the mouth, the anus, and/or feces. It's not out of the realm of possibility.
That's... I ...I didn't think about that possibility.
YET
It’s 2024 you don’t have to disguise your words
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