Australian worms that eat your brains!

HUNDREDS of Australians may not know their brains are infested with a rare sharp-toothed parasite caught from eating undercooked river fish.

Alfred Hospital doctors said yesterday 19 people have been diagnosed with the rare 1mm-2mm worm, which is found in Thailand and China.
Infectious diseases expert Dr Andrew Fuller said: "I see a lot of weird infections, but this is one of the weirdest."

Symptoms of the condition include exhaustion and strong stomach pain.

www.heraldsun.news.com.au...

You have to avoid that Australian sushi.

makes me feel glad I don't like fish

...so...is this the reason Aussies seem to have less braincells/brain power than the average Kiwi...

...poor Aussies are having their brains noshed on by some little worm...and all the while we Kiwis just ragged on them thinking they were just plain old slow...


...almost makes me feel guilty now...



...almost...

wow more brain eating parasites. and in fish as well. maybe vegetarians have got the right idea.

So I guess SUSHI is out!

Hmmmmm.......

And now I feel a headache coming on!
Or maybe it's the rare sharp-toothed parasite that's trying to get out!!!


Great.......now I have to find the land of OZ......and speak to the great wizard and get a brain.........
Has anyone seen DOROTHY???
''I'm off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of OZ''........because,because, because,.........My BRAIN is at a LOSS!!!
helen...

Gee......I must be infected....otherwise why would I write something like that......

Hmmmmmm.....
Ok.......It sounds serious......

Now im glad I didn't eat Sushi yesterday.
I wonder how long it takes the parasites to fully eat a brain?
Ooow the PAIN!
Stupid brain eating parasites

[Edited on 14-9-2003 by Reaper]

Don't zombies eat brains? Yeah they do! And so do the worms... so that leaves only one option.. Zombie worms! FEAR!

Originally posted by alien
...poor Aussies are having their brains noshed on by some little worm...and all the while we Kiwis just ragged on them thinking they were just plain old slow...

LMAO!

Brain eating worms?! Eeeeeewwww! Imagine the head aches that you get.... OOOOoooh the pain...
Hummm, I'm not sure if I still want to try sushi now. I hope american sushi is safe...

Heh This is just a reminder to Australians on the Forum:

DO NOT SWALLOW THE WORM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TEQUILLA BOTTLE!!!

quote from Wolfofwar
DO NOT SWALLOW THE WORM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TEQUILLA BOTTLE!!!


I think I have seen like 20 of thos "worms" in a fresh pizza slice.... no they were not magots it was brand-new pizza.

Originally posted by DiscoFever
makes me feel glad I don't like fish

Seconded.
Brain eating worms in fish... what next

It is ok to eat fish, JUST DON'T EAT RAW FISH!

Seems to me that things are getting more and more weird everyday. Perhaps nature is trying to get rid of a mass amount of the population.

That's gross! It sounds like something out of a horror movie!

If the "worms" can think I bet they would be like, first Ill eat his brain, get out before he dies, then go munch on another fish.

Wow, the life cycal of a brain eating parasite.

which brings us to this momo...

A Sydney-based man who ate two garden slugs as a dare during a party narrowly escaped death from a rare form of meningitis, an often fatal swelling around the brain.

full story...



[Edited on 22-10-2003 by Crowley]