[iowamark]

[dfwgator]

Ewwwwwww!

[nickcarraway]

I wonder if there are medical purposes this could be used for?

[Berlin_Freeper]

i don't do “medical”.

[Michael.SF.]

This happened to my wife while she was carrying our first son.

She had to have eye drops every hour, 24 hours a day, or could have lost her vision.

Thank God her mother was a nurse and helped to care for her.

Very scary.

[Kozak]

[jakerobins]

So did he catch it in Mexico?? Ewwww....Last time I eat Street food in Mexico....Yarg....

[libh8er]

Retina. Mmmmm Yum !

[Dr.Deth]

They put creaturez... into our boadies!

[fhayek]

There. Those worms don't seem like such a bad option now, do they?

[libertarian27]

Gross, gross, gross, gross, gross....

Remind me again never to look at posts entered at 2am Eastern Time....

*shiver*...yuck.

[Big Giant Head]

I guess I need glasses or a bigger laptop screen first thing in the morning. I thought the thread title said “WOMAN eats Cedar Rapid man’s retina.”

[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?

[wideminded]

Cysticercosis

[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.

[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.