Tapeworms found in brain of US man who ate undercooked bacon
Tapeworms found in brain of US man who ate undercooked bacon
Parasitic larvae discovered after unexplained weekly migraines failed to respond to medication
cross-posted from: https://real.lemmy.fan/post/1583913
Mmmm...forbidden worms....
Some dude on reddit tried to convince me a few months ago that you don’t need to cook raw bacon because the smoking process brings it up to temp for long enough.
“I work at a smokehouse bro”.
21Sounds like the brain worms had already got to him as that is classic brain worm propaganda.
26I know what cold smoked meat products ready to eat looks like, and bacon aint it.
5Tbh I only stopped eating raw bacon when my wife told me not to
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I've seen a few complaints about the way we Brits cook our bacon and if poorly cooked bacon gives you brain worms, I get the point.
11Goddammit, Florida. Why is it that everywhere else in the universe does a fairly passable job every fuckin' day of not being the obvious location for any patient zero scenario at all... except you?
11Isn't the reason we always hear about "Florida Man" that they have public listing of all their arrests etc? Meaning that presumably everywhere (in America, at least, though I don't want to throw stones from our glass house) is this crazy!
7This is not an arrest, so that inference is a bit off, and the existence of Florida Man doesn't change the facts of this instance: the tapeworm larvae were not a punitive result of unwise choices by said individual, but a much deeper issue involving multiple stages of the meat's processing, storage, transit, etc., with each successive one pointing to a wider scope of oversight failure.
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What about wet markets?
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Parasitic tapeworm larvae have been found in a man’s brain following weeks of worsening migraines, which researchers believe were caused by his consumption of undercooked bacon.
Following a CT scan on the man, Florida researchers found numerous fluid-filled sacs, or cystic foci, in his brain.
“It can only be speculated, but given our patient’s predilection for undercooked pork and benign exposure history, we favor that his cysticercosis was transmitted via autoinfection after improper handwashing after he had contracted taeniasis himself from his eating habits,” researchers said.
Antiparasitic drugs such as praziquantel or albendazole have sufficient activity against Taenia solium, but there is concern that most of the inflammation occurs when the cysts are killed, giving some clinicians pause when considering treatment.
Although the disease occurs globally, its highest rates of infection are found in areas of Latin America, Asia and Africa that have poor sanitation and free-ranging pigs with access to human feces, the CDC reports.
It adds that there are an estimated 1,000 new hospitalizations for neurocysticercosis in the US each year, with cases more frequently reported in New York, California, Texas, Oregon and Illinois.
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3My mom had tapeworm eggs in her brain when I was like 6. I always wondered what would've happened if you had an actual worm in there. Not sure how I feel about finally having that answered other than "Keep ensuring any pork meat you eat is always properly cooked".
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