silence7@slrpnk.net to New York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyzEnglish · edit-21 year agoR.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brainwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up182arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: weirdnews@real.lemmy.fanusa@lemmy.ml
arrow-up175arrow-down1external-linkR.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brainwww.nytimes.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to New York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyzEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square20linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: weirdnews@real.lemmy.fanusa@lemmy.ml
Likely explains his long history of pushing conspiracy theories, and makes him utterly unsuited to be President
minus-squareRaoulDook@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year agoWTF?? He was mercury poisoned and had a brain worm? Was he doing some kind of 1800s-era science experiments at home?
minus-squareCarnelian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoApparently just eating an enormous amount of tuna + picked up the worm larva from some undercooked pork!
minus-squarebeefsquatch@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoOne could even say… too much tuna?
minus-squareAnticorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoHow does a worm go from your stomach, into your brain? That doesn’t make sense.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoThey bite through the lining of the stomach and circulate with blood looking for tissue to develop inside of. They usually do this in pigs, but it sometimes happens in humans
minus-squareAnticorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoTerrifying! What the fuck, nature?
minus-squareTriPolarBearz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoIt’s called neurocysticercosis. Here’s some info from the CDC. https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/resources/pdf/npis_in_us_neurocysticercosis.pdf
WTF?? He was mercury poisoned and had a brain worm? Was he doing some kind of 1800s-era science experiments at home?
Apparently just eating an enormous amount of tuna + picked up the worm larva from some undercooked pork!
One could even say… too much tuna?
How does a worm go from your stomach, into your brain? That doesn’t make sense.
They bite through the lining of the stomach and circulate with blood looking for tissue to develop inside of. They usually do this in pigs, but it sometimes happens in humans
Terrifying! What the fuck, nature?
It’s called neurocysticercosis. Here’s some info from the CDC.
https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/resources/pdf/npis_in_us_neurocysticercosis.pdf