Posted on 11/04/2015 7:52:23 PM PST by Dallas59
A Colombian man's lung tumors turned out to have an extremely unusual cause: The rapidly growing masses weren't actually made of human cells, but were from a tapeworm living inside him, according to a report of the case.
This is the first known report of a person becoming sick from cancer cells that developed in a parasite, the researchers said.
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What type of cigarettes did the tapeworm smoke?
I heard they’re partial to Marlboro
Dreadful. RIP.
That parasite did to him what our Democrat parasites are doing to this country
The man had HIV but not aids. The worm inside him developed cancer which spread to his body. The cancer cells weren’t human, but worm. His immune system couldn’t handle it.
Yep, exactly. And Congress acting as the immune system refuses to do anything.
So all these years worrying about ‘earwigs that lay eggs’ has been a useless journey.
Not so long ago I read about women taking up smoking to lose weight.
Talk about trying to gain the interest of men ignoring you due to your physical habits by adopting another almost more repulsive............
Once you go worm, that’s what you’ll yearn.
Years ago when I was young, I remember adults used to joke that a child who ate a lot must have a tape worm. We always thought it was pretty funny.
That is only thing I remember quite clearly from high school biology. So disgusting, but it shows how people have always done everything but eat less to lose weight.
Would make a great House episode if the show hadn’t gone stupid.
The tapeworm got cancer and killed him?
My mother told me a story from her childhood about a little girl in their town that was losing weight while her abdomen was growing larger, the local doctor diagnosed the problem as a tapeworm, and instructed the parents to give the child nothing but water for three days, after which the doctor came back to the house, took the little girl outside and tied her to a tree firmly, and then waved a saucer of milk in front of the girl’s mouth, the tapeworm (by then ravenous for food) literally came leaping up from the stomach, through the throat and out of the child’s mouth, wild lashing, gaping maw and all, they grabbed the tapeworm and pulled it out by hand, the total length being something close to 5 to 6 feet.
Ever since I heard that story I’ve made sure all of my sausages, bacon or pork products were *thoroughly* well done.
Thank you SO much for the visual that description engendered. My nightmares had been getting boring of late. Not so now.
I could follow that up with a true black widow spider story if you like? ;) lol
I had a dog that ate about a 100 feet of kite string that I didn’t know about, all I saw was a few inches hanging out her rear. I covered my hand with a towel and grabbed it, then she took off running.
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