Posted on 08/09/2018 9:14:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin
He had been experiencing a litany of symptoms his doctors couldn’t 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 couldn’t 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 eye’s 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 country’s spiritual traditions.
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It’s why I can’t be in medicine. Just reading this made me queasy.
Life imitates art imitating life...I think. Anyway it DOES remind me of the Futurama episode; Parasites Lost.
Not. Reading...Ever.
Disgusting!!!!
Nevers eats Egg sammages froms truckstopses.
Thoses littles guyes are pushys!
Seems Ivermectin is called for...
African eye worms suck..They’re as bad and that intestinal gigas worm which burrows itself in the intestine and can get to 15 inches in length. Doctors are able to eliminate the worm after by placing patients on their stomachs while propping open their mouths. A piece of meat is placed at the mouth opening. When the worm starts to exit the mouth the physician will grab it and pull it out.
Or looking to smoke some E.Musky $420:-)
Sounds like a scene out of the Alien move “Prometheus”.
Their album De-Loused in the Comatorium(which includes the aforementioned song) is one of the best prog-hard rock albums in the last twenty years.
Yes, a total shittehole.
Loa Loa, oh no, said we gotta go
Eye-yi-yi-yi, I
Said Loa loa, oh baby, said we gotta go
A fine little girl, she waitin’ for me
Catch a ship across the sea
Sail that ship out to Gabon
Me never think how I’ll make it home
Loa Loa, such-a-bad worm, said we gotta go, oh no
Said Loa Loa, oh baby, said-a we gotta go
Exactly. Africa is one giant Petri dish for every filthy disease on the planet. You’d be better off submerging your head in the toilet for a week then go to Africa.
I know. I was hoping someone would see the connection.
BTW - I get that Earwig in the Brain feeling every time I hear the new Socialist Star of the Democrat Party speak.
ROFLMAO
AHHHHH! I am silently screaming mouth agape after reading that. There are so many things I wish I didn’t know and that is one of them. Looking on the bright side however at least they can remove the parasite that way. uuuuuuugggghhhhh....
I know a couple who watched that earwig program and ten years later were still freaked. It’s probably on youtube. Much worse than the War of the Worlds.
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