Hidden Epidemic: 
Tapeworms Living Inside People's Brains

Discover ^ | 5/15/12 | Carl Zimmer

[LizardQueen]

I’m feeling a sudden urge to chug some veterinary de-wormer.

[FormerACLUmember]

Common in Kenya, it would appear.

[FrdmLvr]

Pork, it’s the meat of kings!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBoLA_BQ4tU

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

That’s why Obamacare was invented. Liberals are eaten up with brain worms.

[pterional]

This is a disease that is epidemic in Mexico. It has become a health issue in the US only because of the illegals. Unfortunately the tapeworm infestation is caused by both eating poorly cooked pork and fecal oral contamination. If your favorite restaurant employs illegals from Mexico and they don't wash there hands after going to the bathroom , and they are a carrier of a tape worm then you are at risk of eating a tapeworm egg. One tapeworm can release 200,000 eggs a day. This is another gift from Mexico.

[TribalPrincess2U]

MmmmmmmmmmmmmBACON

I’ll have mine with a side order of tapeworm kill.

[AU72]

From the 3 Stooges:

Curley: I'll have burnt toast and a rotten egg.
Moe: Why are you ordering burnt toast and a rotten egg?
Curley: It serves my tape worm right!

[mamelukesabre]

That was my decision years ago. In fact I stopped eating ALL mammals.

[little jeremiah]

Makes me very, very thankful that I’ve been a vegetarian for more than 40 years and never, ever eat out.

Ever since I saw tapeworms in formaldehyde in 10th grade biology class I’ve hated to eat pigs.

[LibWhacker]

Doggone it! If I knew you had some of that, I wouldn't have chugged my last pint of this:

I'm feeling queasy.

[SCalGal]

I’m feeling a sudden urge to chug some veterinary de-wormer.

Ditto. In reality, all we need to do is make sure pork is cooked thoroughly.

[LibWhacker]

Arggh! Don’t say that. You know what we had tonight? Takeout tacos from this Mexican joint down the street. I don’t know where he gets his pork, but it doesn’t look like anything we can get from Safeway.

[central_va]

I just had pork chops for dinner, ewwwww.

[Delta 21]

Red Cross says I cant donate blood any more because I lived in Germany for 3 years and possibly came in contact with Mad Cow.

In my cynicism I throw back that I was only addicted to the Jagerschitzel.

Now this??!!?? Im a goner fer sure!

[Delta 21]

Yeah but that stray cat problem you had a few years back has worked itself out nicely.

[DouglasKC]

I have an idea....listen to God:

Lev 11:7 and the swine, though it divides the hoof, having cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.
Lev 11:8 Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. They are unclean to you.

[mkjessup]

Well after reading this unnerving article, I suppose it would be appropriate to share a story that my late Dad told me, and I hope that the resulting humor will make up for the queasiness that some of us might be feeling right about now ...

"A man discovered that he was terribly constipated, and the usual laxatives and what not were not helping. So, he goes to his doctor, who conducts a thorough exam and then takes a scope to look up the man's hindquarters, and exclaims "well no wonder you're all backed up, you've got a huge tapeworm in your lower intestine, I can see how it has you blocked!"

The man, in a bit of a panic, says "what do I do Doc?" and the doctor reassured him and said "not to worry, I've dealt with this before, I'm giving you a sleeping pill so you can get a good night's rest, and I want you to come back in the morning, and bring me two hard boiled eggs, and a cookie."

His patient said "say WHAT?" and the doctor told him to just follow directions. The man went home, took the sleeping pill, had a rather good sleep, and obediently brought in two hard boiled eggs and a nice thick chocolate chip cookie the next morning to the doctor.

The doctor directs the man to get up on the examining table on his hands and knees after disrobing, and the man heard the unmistakable snap of rubber gloves being pulled over hands and the doctor said "now brace yourself, this might be a little uncomfortable" as he proceeded to ram the first hard boiled egg, then the second egg, AND the cookie, right up the man's anus. Needless to say, the man was a bit stunned at that development. The doctor instructed him to get dressed, take another sleeping pill that night, and bring two MORE hard boiled eggs AND another cookie the next day.

The patient, obedient as before, did exactly that. The next morning, he was ushered into the doctor's examining room, up on the table he goes, and after some reassuring words from his physician, it was one egg, two eggs, AND that chocolate chip cookie, rammed up where the sun doesn't shine.

The man says in obvious pain, "NOW what Doc?!?" And the doctor said, tomorrow your problems will be over, go home and get another good night's rest, and when you come in tomorrow, bring me two hard boiled eggs and a HAMMER."

The patient, VERY alarmed said "DOC?!? You're not gonna go and ram a HAMMER up there are you!?" and the doctor replied, "oh of course not, do you think I'm some kind of barbarian?"

So after one more night of somewhat fitful sleep, the man waddles into the doctor's office, bringing two hard boiled eggs and a big Sears claw hammer. Up on the table he gingerly climbs, the doctor rams the first egg up the guy's rump. The man howls with pain. The second egg is introduced to his colon. MORE painful shrieks. The man says "Doc? I can't take much more of this, what's next?"

The doctor says "be very still, and brace yourself" - and raised the hammer high, and in just a few moments the tapeworm leaped out of the man's butt, yelling
"WHERE'S MY COOKIE?!?"

**** WHAM **** went the hammer!!!!!

[LibWhacker]

I don’t know about you, but I’m eyeing that bottle of mezcal in the liquor cabinet.

[Pelham]

“There’s a clue that even House could believe.”

Good call. The pilot episode of House was... tapeworm cysts in the brain.

[LibWhacker]

Lol! Wow, was that seizure I just had caused by the worms or your spider?