Family stricken with rare brain worms after eating undercooked bear
Family stricken with rare brain worms after eating undercooked bear
In the parasite vs. bear vs. human battle, the grizzly parasite comes out on top.
Are they sure that’s the direction of causation? Because eating undercooked bear is the sort of behavior I’d expect from people who were already infected with brain worms.
198lmao
edit: i was going to quote some interesting parts of the article, but, really, you should read it. it's all interesting!
24It's the same thing you get eatting undercooked pork. Only recently did the pork industry manage to get it mostly out of their herds so now the "recommended temp" to cook pork is dropping.
But it's still very common in bears so you have to treat it like pork and cooked it to 165*
which sucks, I'd love to try a juicy rare black bear steak.
18It's the same thing you get eatting undercooked pork.
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Trichinosis from bear isn't much harder to get than salmonella from chicken.
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Is there enough time for any of them to get on the ballot?
105Maybe RFK Jr could change his running mate?
32The Worm Party.
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No, sadly none of the worms survived the procedure.
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"Minnesota and the CDC reported that the three hospitalized patients were treated with the anti-parasitic drug albendazole and recovered."
Albendazole and mebendazole kill of intestinal parasites in the same way. They starve them of sugars for several hours. I bring both up just because it rings angry memories about US Healthcare. They typically work with a single dose treatment.
Mebendazole is a prescription pill in the US and despite having been made in around the early 1970's and costing around 4 cents a pill to make, in the US, after getting a prescription, the pills are $250 a piece.
In most of the world, they are prescription free and you can pick up a 6 pack of them for like $12.
95God bless America 😡 🇺🇸
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Rare because cooking rare bear is rare.
29Well done, dad.
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The Kennedy's?
25What is the Kennedy? And what thing belonging to it are you referring to?
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Everyone is criticizing them, but you know what they say... some days ya eat the bar, some days, the bar eats you.
25That's not what it means to "choose the bear."
21In this particular case, I'm glad they chose the bear vs the alternative.
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21NatureDarwin finds a way.9Your idiots were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
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Always feels weird when a city dweller like me, seems to have more common sense knowledge like this than people who literally hunt animals to eat.
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This is the most 2024 headline I’ve seen so far.
15Now THERE'S a headline you don't see every day
15It was a hell of a ride, wasn't it?
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RFK Jr.'s fans be wildin'
10sounds like the bear won in the end
10Well what the fuck
8This gives a new meaning to bear with me
7That was one dramatic ride of a headline
7Relatives of the Goldilocks family had difficulty bearing the news.
7The health experts noted how tricky it can be to identify and diagnose these rare cases but flagged periorbital edema and the eosinophilia as being key clinical clues to the grizzly infections
Sounds unbearable 😮💨
7Dam! 😨 What a bunch of morons.
Even in the Stone Age, Homo sapiens had learned to cook their food before eating it.
6Wait if they had cooked the bear more, they'd have been eating dead worms instead of live ones? Safer I guess, but still not at all appetizing imho.
4A lot of the meat you eat already has parasites in it. You probably have parasites in you right now. But they're very, very small, and cooking kills them and their eggs just fine. You'd have to put the meat under a microscope to really see them.
20A lot? Trichinosis has almost been eliminated in pork. An old study looking for a particular parasite found little to none depending on the product. Here is another study showing very low incidence of parasites in meat products, but also includes fresh produce in the study which had higher rates than some meats.
So I disagree that "A lot" is correct.
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Yes trichinosis can be avoided like salmonella by ensuring a meat is raised to a safe temp.
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Give them their Darwin awards.
-2Also called "group suicide".
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