Live worm found in man's brain during surgery

Ananova ^

[bedolido]

A live nine-centimetre-long worm has been found inside a man's brain during surgery in China.

The 42-year-old man from Luoding is said to have recently developed a mental disorder.

Medical experts suspect the man had the worm because of his habit of eating snakes and frogs, says the South China Morning Post.

[sarasota]

I heard about worms from eating sushi but this is a new one.

[mombonn]

Gee thanks, just as I was sitting down to lunch!

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[ladtx]

Frogs and snakes?? I draw the line at toads and spiders.

[wimpycat]

Back in medieval times, this sort of thing wasn't unusual. People back then would get worms that would crawl around inside your body and come out of your eye. I can't remember the type of worm it was, though.

Gross, huh?

[PISANO]

Some anatomy expert or medical person here at FR explain to me how a WORM gets into the BRAIN from ingesting a frog or snake???

[mystery-ak]

...thanks for sharing...yuck!

[Question_Assumptions]

They hatch in your digestive tract and then crawl around through your blood stream or muscle tissue. Do you really want to know more?

[Frank_Discussion]

Paging Fox Mulder... Paging Fox Mulder... Red Courtesy Phone..

[ASA Vet]

a mental disorder

Here's proof they have democRATs in China.

The Chinese kind are more truthful, they admit to being Communists.

[Unknown Freeper]

In a warped, sadistic way, yes. I had no idea how this could happen until you explained.

::afraid to read the details:::

[ReaganWarrior]

That's easy to explain.
There was an old woman who swallowed a fly, who swallowed a frog to catch the fly. . .(later in the song). . .there was an old woman with a worm in her brain.
Elementary, my dear Bisesi.

[CommandoFrank]

I've heard of 'pot heads' and 'gear heads' but never before heard of a 'worm head'....

[AdmSmith]

It is perhaps Taenia solium This long flat ribon like parasite averages 6 - 10 feet long but can reach 30 feet in length.

In addition to becoming infected with adults it is also possible to become infected with the larval stage (cysticercus) by ingesting the eggs. This produces the condition known as cysticercosis. These larval stages can encyst in any tissue throughout the body but cause most serious damage when they encyst in the eye or brain.

here is a old story:
Doctors at Arizona's Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale believe the taco contained Taenia solium, a parasite that is common in Latin America. It can be transmitted by infected food prepared by someone who has not followed proper sanitation procedures after coming into contact with the creature's eggs, which can be present in human feces.

Some experts point out that it is difficult to know for certain that the taco was the source of the worm.

However Becerra ingested the parasite, it attached itself as an egg to her intestinal wall. Eventually, the egg developed into the worm, which moved into her blood stream and to her brain, said Dr. Joseph Sirven, who operated on Becerra.

Once in the brain, the worm causes little harm until it eventually dies and decays, thereby inflaming surrounding tissue.

"It's after the worm dies that the body reacts to something foreign," Sirven explained.

Undergoing Brain Surgery While Awake

Although Becerra seems to have kept a good attitude — she even gave the worm a nickname, Tonya — she said the seizures it caused were devastating. She reached a point where she could no longer tolerate them.


http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/brainworm010410.html

[ReaganWarrior]

Fox Mulder here (how did you find out my real ID?). This case bores me. Call me when the worm sprouts wings and starts to quote from the newest Harry Potter, then you've got somethin'.

[theFIRMbss]

>A live nine-centimetre-long worm has been found inside a man's brain during surgery in China.
>>explain to me how a WORM gets into the BRAIN from ingesting a frog or snake?

"Forget it, Jake.
It's Chinatown."

[xfmrman]

Ummm!Snakes and Frogs...

[xsmommy]

hey worms for brains... ; )