Posted on 11/25/2008 9:15:02 AM PST by AuntB
No reason to build that border wall #17,056. And you thought their gifts were limited to freeloaders, salmonella, and e-coli. Silly geese!
It's Not a Tumor, It's a Brain Worm
Late last summer, Rosemary Alvarez of Phoenix thought she had a brain tumor. But on the operating table her doctor discovered something even more unsightly -- a parasitic worm eating her brain..."We've got a lot more of cases of this in the United States now," said Raymond Kuhn, professor of biology and an expert on parasites at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. "Upwards of 20 percent of neurology offices in California have seen it."
According to Kuhn, who has traveled to study this parasite, cysticercosis is a big problem in some parts of Latin America and Mexico where health codes are hard to enforce and people may frequently eat undercooked pork. As people travel across the border with Mexico for vacation and work, Kuhn said so does the tapeworm. One person infected with a parasite, who also has bad hand washing habits, can infect many others with eggs.
"These eggs can live for three months in formaldehyde," said Kuhn. "You got to think, sometimes, a person is slapping lettuce on your sandwich with a few extra add-ons there."
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/story?id=6309464&page=1
“Being a carnivore is not a pre-resquisite for being a conservative.”
Apparently not being a carnivore makes you extra sensitive to teasing.
I prescribe a cheeseburger for that one, and please, hold the lettuce, just in case.
Take a glass of tequila with you, just don't swallow the......oh no!
LOL!!
Just a sign of the times. Instant world-wide communication.
You want fries with that?
Let’s just say I’ve had some interesting criticism, as though eating meat is a requirement to be a conservative.
Unless you mean "lying on a crap pile," I am reporting you to the moderator.
“Lets just say Ive had some interesting criticism, as though eating meat is a requirement to be a conservative.”
No, I can’t imagine eating meat as being a requirement for being a conservative - it IS pretty much a requirement for being taken seriously as a man. It’s even more manly when you catch it and eat it raw.
I’m a mrs and DH is a martial artist and contractor and we’re both vegetarians...
“Im a mrs and DH is a martial artist and contractor and were both vegetarians...”
See, then you know exactly what I’m talking about.
Nope I don’t but that’s okay, carry on.
Can I invoke “the rules” with Tammy Bruce?
May the owners of all restaurants employing that cheap labor be blessed with this worm
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