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Live worm found in man's brain during surgery
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Posted on 07/09/2003 9:36:46 AM PDT by bedolido

A live nine-centimetre-long worm has been found inside a man's brain during surgery in China.

The 42-year-old man from Luoding is said to have recently developed a mental disorder.

Medical experts suspect the man had the worm because of his habit of eating snakes and frogs, says the South China Morning Post.


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1 posted on 07/09/2003 9:36:46 AM PDT by bedolido
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To: bedolido
I heard about worms from eating sushi but this is a new one.
2 posted on 07/09/2003 9:38:35 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: bedolido
Gee thanks, just as I was sitting down to lunch!
3 posted on 07/09/2003 9:39:51 AM PDT by mombonn (Have you prayed for our President yet today?)
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5 posted on 07/09/2003 9:41:36 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: hermit of God
Frogs and snakes?? I draw the line at toads and spiders.
6 posted on 07/09/2003 9:42:20 AM PDT by ladtx ("...the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country." D. MacArthur)
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To: bedolido
Back in medieval times, this sort of thing wasn't unusual. People back then would get worms that would crawl around inside your body and come out of your eye. I can't remember the type of worm it was, though.

Gross, huh?

7 posted on 07/09/2003 9:42:25 AM PDT by wimpycat (I'm an expert at being annoying. I'm a kid sister.)
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To: sarasota
Some anatomy expert or medical person here at FR explain to me how a WORM gets into the BRAIN from ingesting a frog or snake???
8 posted on 07/09/2003 9:42:54 AM PDT by PISANO
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To: wimpycat
...thanks for sharing...yuck!
9 posted on 07/09/2003 9:44:37 AM PDT by mystery-ak (The War is not over for me until my hubby's boots hit U.S. soil.)
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To: Bisesi
They hatch in your digestive tract and then crawl around through your blood stream or muscle tissue. Do you really want to know more?
10 posted on 07/09/2003 9:45:14 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: bedolido
Paging Fox Mulder... Paging Fox Mulder... Red Courtesy Phone..
11 posted on 07/09/2003 9:45:55 AM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: bedolido
a mental disorder

Here's proof they have democRATs in China.

The Chinese kind are more truthful, they admit to being Communists.

12 posted on 07/09/2003 9:46:34 AM PDT by ASA Vet ("Those who know, don't talk. Those who talk, don't know." (I'm in the Sgt Schultz group))
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To: Question_Assumptions
In a warped, sadistic way, yes. I had no idea how this could happen until you explained.

::afraid to read the details:::
13 posted on 07/09/2003 9:47:18 AM PDT by Unknown Freeper
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To: Bisesi
That's easy to explain.
There was an old woman who swallowed a fly, who swallowed a frog to catch the fly. . .(later in the song). . .there was an old woman with a worm in her brain.
Elementary, my dear Bisesi.
14 posted on 07/09/2003 9:47:40 AM PDT by ReaganWarrior
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To: bedolido
I've heard of 'pot heads' and 'gear heads' but never before heard of a 'worm head'....
15 posted on 07/09/2003 9:48:15 AM PDT by CommandoFrank (Peer into the depths of hell and there is the face of Islam!)
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To: sarasota
It is perhaps Taenia solium This long flat ribon like parasite averages 6 - 10 feet long but can reach 30 feet in length.

In addition to becoming infected with adults it is also possible to become infected with the larval stage (cysticercus) by ingesting the eggs. This produces the condition known as cysticercosis. These larval stages can encyst in any tissue throughout the body but cause most serious damage when they encyst in the eye or brain.

here is a old story:
Doctors at Arizona's Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale believe the taco contained Taenia solium, a parasite that is common in Latin America. It can be transmitted by infected food prepared by someone who has not followed proper sanitation procedures after coming into contact with the creature's eggs, which can be present in human feces.

Some experts point out that it is difficult to know for certain that the taco was the source of the worm.

However Becerra ingested the parasite, it attached itself as an egg to her intestinal wall. Eventually, the egg developed into the worm, which moved into her blood stream and to her brain, said Dr. Joseph Sirven, who operated on Becerra.

Once in the brain, the worm causes little harm until it eventually dies and decays, thereby inflaming surrounding tissue.

"It's after the worm dies that the body reacts to something foreign," Sirven explained.

Undergoing Brain Surgery While Awake

Although Becerra seems to have kept a good attitude — she even gave the worm a nickname, Tonya — she said the seizures it caused were devastating. She reached a point where she could no longer tolerate them.


http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/brainworm010410.html
16 posted on 07/09/2003 9:49:19 AM PDT by AdmSmith
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To: Frank_Discussion
Fox Mulder here (how did you find out my real ID?). This case bores me. Call me when the worm sprouts wings and starts to quote from the newest Harry Potter, then you've got somethin'.
17 posted on 07/09/2003 9:49:30 AM PDT by ReaganWarrior
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To: Bisesi
>A live nine-centimetre-long worm has been found inside a man's brain during surgery in China.
>>explain to me how a WORM gets into the BRAIN from ingesting a frog or snake?

"Forget it, Jake.
It's Chinatown."

18 posted on 07/09/2003 9:49:32 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: bedolido
Ummm!Snakes and Frogs...
19 posted on 07/09/2003 9:49:32 AM PDT by xfmrman
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To: martin_fierro
hey worms for brains... ; )
20 posted on 07/09/2003 9:50:17 AM PDT by xsmommy
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