Brain worms are real (warning: brain worms)
Doctors in the U.K. have discovered a worm in a man's brain, which is easily the worst place for it.
Not only that, but the worm—a rare little fellow known to his friends as Spirometra erinaceieuropaei—was actually moving hither and yon across the man's brain lobes as if it owned the damn place!
You can see the progress of the little fucker here, in this animated GIF, and you can wonder at its appalling sense of entitlement.
According to doctors, once they finished vomiting, the 50-year-old victim in this case had been suffering from "headaches and strange smells", meaning therefore that I'm hungover and a little gassy today or that I HAVE A FUCKING WORM IN MY BRAIN.
After years of MRIs and tests for HIV, syphilis, and tuberculosis, doctors concluded that the man's problems were caused by a fucking worm in his brain, plus HIV, syphilis, and tuberculosis (not really.)
The worm was identified by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, once they finished vomiting, who said that it was caused by "consuming tiny infected crustaceans from lakes, eating raw meat from reptiles and amphibians or by using a raw frog poultice—a Chinese remedy to calm sore eyes."
Seriously, you can't do anything these days.
Comments
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Chuck
Nov 22, 2014 at 7:29am
That's it then no more raw frog poultice for me. lol
A. MacInnis
Nov 24, 2014 at 10:29am
There seems to be a pattern emerging. There's the guy with a cricket in his ear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pklp5spGbH8
Then there's the girl with a three-inch leech in her nose:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2789909/i-three-inch-leech-nose-...
I haven't seen anything hiding up someone's anus yet, but I'm kinda holding my breath.