Posted on 11/26/2019 6:45:14 PM PST by BenLurkin
The patient, identified as Zhu Zhongfa, allegedly had eaten undercooked pork, which was contaminated with Taenia solium, a parasitic tapeworm.
“Different patients respond [differently] to the infection depending on where the parasites occupy,” Dr. Huang Jianrong, Zhongfa’s doctor at Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, told AsiaWire. “In this case, he had seizures and lost consciousness, but others with cysts in their lungs might cough a lot.”
Jianrong explained that the larvae entered Zhongfa’s body through the digestive system and traveled upward through his bloodstream. He was officially diagnosed with cysticercosis and neurocysticercosis, and given an antiparasitic drug and other medications to protect his organs from further damage, according to AsiaWire.
Jianrong said his patient is doing well after one week, but the long-term effects from the massive infestation are unclear.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends cooking meat at a safe temperature and using a food thermometer in an effort to avoid taeniasis.
Humans are the only hosts for Taenia tapeworms, and pass tapeworm segments and eggs in feces which contaminate the soil in areas where sanitation is poor. The eggs survive in a moist environment for days to months, and cows and pigs become infected after feeding in the contaminated areas.
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When I lived in AK, there was a news story about a family in a bush village who came down with botulism. They had eaten a beaver they found dead in the house.
And bacon...
It isn’t as much a problem as pork.
There was someone on another thread that said they were craving a medium-rare tenderloin. I sure hope the read this!
There was a botulism breakout in rural Alaska in the 1980’s from Natives eating fermented salmon heads (YUM!) that they allowed to rot in sealed 5 gallon buckets. Clostridium botulinim is the bacteria that causes botulism poisoning and will only grow in anaerobic environments which was provided by the sealed buckets. Botulism is an acute illness that kills by paralyzing one’s respiratory muscles and if you get the anti-toxin in time you survive w/o sequelae. I was shocked by the appearance of the young man with trichinosis when I saw him 6 months later. He had worked as a sheet rock hanger, was about 6’4”, and 260 lbs. of muscle. Six months later he was a skeleton who told me he needed vocational retraining because he was so weak.
True, but the point is not to eat anything raw. Even sushi has some risk, as there is a fish tapeworm humans can be infected with.
I really hate that these things exist. Look up lung flukes (Paragonimiasis). Those are also disgusting (grow in your intestine, penetrate the intestinal wall, and make it though the diaphragm and into the lung). You can get them from snails (maybe avoid escargot..).
Just a flesh wound...
>>which contaminate the soil in areas where sanitation is poor.
Don’t eat CRAP.
That’s the rule.
ALWAYS
Can you get brain eating parasites from cat?
I was just going to post “In Before the Pink Floyd Reference”
Oh, well.
Bacon was the original Forbidden Fruit?
Don’t eat any animal found dead...the Bible....old testament...Leviticus 22:8
Forgot about that song :)
Yep.
No complaints about BIG pharma when they develop antiparasitic drug. Right?
Oh, never mind!
Regards,
Eat only Double Cooked Pork.
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