Worm eats Cedar Rapids man’s retina

Cedar Rapids Gazette ^ | 099/20/2010 | AP

[Howudoing]

Yuck!!! I love watching medical shows but this totally creeps me out!!!!

[Still Thinking]

“It actually lives underneath the retina of the eye and crawls around and eats the retina,” Folk said. “The worm goes into the gut, digests in the gut, and actually doesn’t crawl through the blood vessels, but crawls through the tissue all the way to the eyes and the brain.”...

Creepy. But how do it know, buried inside tissue, which is the way to the eyes and brain? Road signs left by previous worms?

[Still Thinking]

They put creaturez... into our boadies!

In another movie I learned about these other creatures that steal your vital fluids.

[Still Thinking]

Maybe we both need our eyes checked

Well, my wife used to have some bright green contacts, maybe they come in checked as well.

[Still Thinking]

Although I once read of a case where one of these was implanted in a man's testicles...I wonder how THAT happened??? Keep away from nude beaches in Central America, FRiends.

"Winkie on the blinkie? Schlong not long? Get Worm-B-Gone!"

[wideminded]

Cysticercosis

[Sarajevo]

OK, it took me a minute, but that was funny!

[Still Thinking]

;-) Thank you!

[gundog]

Botfly larva? Find ‘em on chipmunks and bunnies. Truly horrific creatures.

[SunkenCiv]

an adult raccoon can shed 60 million eggs that contain these kinds of worms

aren't they cute, though? Raccoons I mean? They make great PELTS and HATS. Thanks iowamark.

[trisham]

Thank goodness we have coyotes, but we did see a raccoon in our yard this summer. They also carry distemper.

[null and void]

Sarajevo ~ Maybe we both need our eyes checked

Still Thinking ~ Well, my wife used to have some bright green contacts, maybe they come in checked as well.

Checkered Contact Lense Kit
£23.99

Checker pattern contact lense kit. Includes 1 pair of patterned checkered contact lenses, lens case, contact solution and easy to follow instructions.

[Still Thinking]

LOL! Thanks, nully.

[Matchett-PI]

"..in one day, an adult raccoon can shed 60 million eggs that contain these kinds of worms. Folk says Matthews could have somehow ingested raccoon dander...."

YUK!! Does anyone know of an update to this story?:

Washington Post:
A 'Raccoon Update' from the White House By Michael D. Shear February 9, 2009

The raccoons are still at large! White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said today that there have been no masked critters caught on the White House lawn today. [snip]

Here's a picture of Rebecca - the first coon to actually live in the White House:

Pictured above is First Lady Grace Coolidge with her pet raccoon Rebecca at the White House Easter Egg Roll on April 18, 1927

Before, during, and after their White House years, the Coolidges kept a dizzying array of pets. From cats and dogs, canaries and mockingbirds, to wombats and raccoons, the Coolidges surrounded themselves with four- footed or feathered creatures.