Woman suing Popeyes says flesh-eating screwworms ate her ‘from the inside out’

KFOR ^ | February 13, 2017, | by Nadia Judith Enchassi

[BenLurkin]

Karen Goode, of San Antonio, is suing for $1,000,000 after she said rice and beans she ate at Popeyes in spring 2015 were infested with flesh-eating worms, according to KDAF.

In the lawsuit filed in Bexar County, Goode's attorney, Patrick Stolmeier, argues the franchisee, Z&H Foods, should have known about the screwworms and never served the tainted food to customers.

He also described what Goode allegedly endured after consuming the screwworms:

"Plaintiff purchased rice and beans from Defendants' restaurant that contained flesh eating New World Screwworms, and Plaintiff unknowingly ingested the flesh eating screwworms. The flesh eating screwworms entered Plaintiff's digestive track, laid eggs which embedded in the interior lining of Plaintiff's small intestine, and when hatched, infested Plaintiff's body and began to eat Plaintiff alive from the inside-out."

[Trod Upon]

So the screwworms are a lot like Democrats.

[piasa]

https://www.horseloverz.com/farm-feed-supplies/cattle-dewormers-livestock-health-products/prozap-screwworm?scid=scbplp14908993&sc_intid=200-415542

[hinckley buzzard]

I know screw worms attack cattle in the Southern border region. I never heard of them being found in chickens.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Out of curiosity, I stopped in to a Popeyes for lunch a year or so ago.

I ordered some fish combo platter thing and was informed that they had run out of fish.

The night before.

Wow.

[Rusty0604]

I wish I hadn’t read, I’m going to have nightmares about flesh eating screworms now.

[piasa]

Trying to figure out how screw worm larvae or eggs could end up in cooked rice and beans...what was she doing, eating out of the dumpster?

The fly is attracted to open wounds, it’s not a housefly though it looks similar. Maybe she had gingivitis and just took a nap out by the barn with her mouth open?

[vigilante2]

Except democrats will eat your wallet too.

[alexander_busek]

I know screw worms attack cattle in the Southern border region. I never heard of them being found in chickens.

These were undocumented screw worms.

Regards,

[Trump20162020]

The plaintiff.

[super7man]

Just for reference, the screw worm is a fly that lays its eggs near the edge of an open wound. The eggs hatch and do indeed consume the surrounding flesh. Some species will only consume dead flesh and have been used to clean up wounds in third world contries.

I suppose a fly could have laid eggs in the rice and beans but I am not sure if the eggs or hatched larvae could survive in the digestive tract.

As far as the “worms” laying eggs in the digestive tract, doesn’t happen. It is the fly that lays the eggs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochliomyia

[RegulatorCountry]

According to plaintiff they weren’t in chicken, they were in rice and beans.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Plaintiff.

[reg45]

This is why I never go to Popeye’s.

[Boogieman]

Love that screwworm from Popeyes!

[KarlInOhio]

Without other customers getting screwworms at the same time, how could she know it was from Popeyes rather than anywhere else she ate during that period of time (day, week, month?) when she could have been infected?

[UCANSEE2]

Those screwworms are going to be very busy for a long time.

[smokingfrog]

Fo reel??

[Ciaphas Cain]

Isn’t this what killed the first King Herod?

[piasa]

I call BS on this.
Clearly the flies mistook her for a cow.