[BenLurkin]

traveled to Gabon in the summer of 2013 after developing an interest in the country’s spiritual traditions.

he was looking for love in all the wrong places.

[NohSpinZone]

S***hole.

[ClearCase_guy]

an inch-long roundworm called Loa loa

There is a famous song about this roundworm, but I can never really make out the lyrics ...

[DIRTYSECRET]

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.

[DariusBane]

Nothing good comes from cultural tourism in the third world. Civilized immune systems sheltered by generations of vaccines are not equipped.

[Red Badger]

[Kickass Conservative]

Lawrence Harvey?

[fwdude]

I’m wondering if this was just one worm, or an indication of others remaining.

[Moonman62]

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.

....

Every time I go to the doctor they ask me if I’ve traveled out of the country recently.

UK medicine sucks.

[Dr. Sivana]

traveled to Gabon in the summer of 2013 after developing an interest in the country’s 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.

[\/\/ayne]

It seems that the worm has turned, my friend.

[piroque]

Karma = “The doctor placed it in a container and Taylor watched it die. “

[762X51]

Life imitates art imitating life...I think. Anyway it DOES remind me of the Futurama episode; Parasites Lost.

[rlmorel]

Not. Reading...Ever.

[dragnet2]

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.

[Harpotoo]

Or looking to smoke some E.Musky $420:-)

[Flick Lives]

Sounds like a scene out of the Alien move “Prometheus”.