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His health had been failing for years. Then he saw something crawling in his eye.
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Posted on 08/09/2018 9:14:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin
He had been experiencing a litany of symptoms his doctors couldnt explain: lumps that kept appearing and disappearing, blinding pain in his eyes that lasted for a day and came back another, a small muscle in his forehead that he felt snap. His white blood cells soared, and itchy rashes covered parts of his body. His joints ached. He was constantly hungry and he had been eating a lot, but he couldnt gain weight. There was a sinking feeling that his body had become host to unwelcome visitors, but tests showed nothing.
One morning, he noticed a faint yellowish lump protruding from underneath his left cornea. And then he felt his eye vibrate, as if something was slithering from within. He rushed to a mirror to find that the lump had disappeared, replaced by a thin line that was also protruding. He touched it, and it moved.
At a hospital not far from his home in Dartmoor in southwestern England, a doctor scalped a tiny part of his eyes outer layer and pulled out the wriggling parasite while Taylor kept his head still. And there it was, an inch-long roundworm called Loa loa. The doctor placed it in a container and Taylor watched it die.
That year, 2015, Taylor was diagnosed with Loiasis, commonly known as African eye worm, a condition caused by the parasite Loa loa. He contracted it after spending several days in the jungles of Gabon, a Central African country where infections caused by Loa loa had persisted for years. Taylor, a frequent world traveler who had spent parts of his childhood in Nigeria, Kenya and India, traveled to Gabon in the summer of 2013 after developing an interest in the countrys spiritual traditions.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: africa; africaneyeworm; eyeworm; loaloa; parasites; worms
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traveled to Gabon in the summer of 2013 after developing an interest in the countrys spiritual traditions.he was looking for love in all the wrong places.
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:14:38 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:16:18 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: BenLurkin
an inch-long roundworm called Loa loa There is a famous song about this roundworm, but I can never really make out the lyrics ...
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:17:11 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
To: BenLurkin
One guy complaining of a headache had 5 bullets in his head. No bullet holes. I remember it vividly because it happened on the eve of the RFK assassination.
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:18:24 AM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: BenLurkin
Nothing good comes from cultural tourism in the third world. Civilized immune systems sheltered by generations of vaccines are not equipped.
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:18:25 AM PDT
by
DariusBane
(Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:18:31 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:18:47 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon)
To: ClearCase_guy
Harvard or Yale?.................
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:19:38 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon)
To: NohSpinZone
That happens here——not just in Africa.
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:19:51 AM PDT
by
Mears
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:22:37 AM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
To: BenLurkin
I’m wondering if this was just one worm, or an indication of others remaining.
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:24:05 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
To: BenLurkin
That year, 2015, Taylor was diagnosed with Loiasis, commonly known as African eye worm, a condition caused by the parasite Loa loa. He contracted it after spending several days in the jungles of Gabon, a Central African country where infections caused by Loa loa had persisted for years. Taylor, a frequent world traveler who had spent parts of his childhood in Nigeria, Kenya and India, traveled to Gabon in the summer of 2013 after developing an interest in the countrys spiritual traditions.
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Every time I go to the doctor they ask me if I’ve traveled out of the country recently.
UK medicine sucks.
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:26:08 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: fwdude
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:29:42 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: BenLurkin
traveled to Gabon in the summer of 2013 after developing an interest in the countrys spiritual traditions.
That's funny, the religious order at my old Church sent priests to Gabon because their spiritual traditions need a serious upgrade. He even allowed them to serve him monkey brains in order to be a gracious guest. He could NOT bring himself to eat off of the plate of a pile of steamed baby monkeys, however.
The current system is rather Communist on a social level, as there isn't anything we would recognize as marriage in the villages he worked in, no particular concern over who is whom's father. It is kind of what some inner cities are turning into. Their excuse is that they were never civilized in the first place, and had not been exposed to Judeo-Christian morality.
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:29:42 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:30:57 AM PDT
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
To: DariusBane
Well said.
I never had a desire to go to such a country.
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:32:56 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(The USA news industry, the MSM-13, takes a machete to the truth. {h/t TigersEye})
To: BenLurkin
It seems that the worm has turned, my friend.
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:32:59 AM PDT
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: BenLurkin
Karma = “The doctor placed it in a container and Taylor watched it die. “
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:37:27 AM PDT
by
piroque
("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
To: Kickass Conservative
I believe that was an earwig.
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:38:34 AM PDT
by
daler
To: fwdude
Im wondering if this was just one worm, or an indication of others remaining.
><
“The bad news is that it hatched it’s eggs, Mr. Jones”.
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posted on
08/09/2018 9:39:38 AM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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