California's Unspoken Health Problem: Brain Parasites 313
An anonymous reader writes "Sunnyvale, California is a town 40 miles outside of San Francisco, in the Bay Area. As in most of California, the weather is mild, and the winters are short, even sometimes warm. On December 20, Sara Alvarez took her youngest child for a walk in the park in town. As daylight faded, Alvarez lost feeling in her right leg, then her left foot. Her body became numb, and she became weak. At 10:15 pm, her husband drove her to a hospital in Redwood City, about 20 minutes away from their town. There, over the course of Christmas, doctors batted around diagnoses: tumor, cancer. Finally, Alvarez received a brain scan that revealed the truth: neurocysticercosis, a calcified tapeworm in her brain (link contains images of brain surgery)."
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our new brain parasite overlo...
"Nobody cares"!?!? (Score:5, Funny)
Finally a CT scan revealed the malady. Alvarez had neurocysticercosis — a calcified tapeworm lodged in her brain...Nobody cares about this disease, and they should, if not from a humanitarian point of view than from a fiscal aspect, says Wilkins, a scientist with the CDC
JESUS H FUCKING CHRIST! I CARE! How can one NOT care about brainworms!
Forget al qaeda! America has a NEW ENEMY! And it is brain tape worms! Take all my taxes, draft people, use those milimeter wave scanners on every street corner, suspend the constitution, I don't care, just keep these terrifying slimy things out of my cerebral cortex!!!
Re:"Nobody cares"!?!? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This sucks (Score:5, Funny)
You just don't eat enough old egg salad sandwiches in space gas stations.
Finaly (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is why we cook our meats (Score:5, Funny)
I don't get it. The immigrants are transmitting tapeworms to Californian pigs? Or directly transmitting them to purebred but presumably cannibalistic Californians? Or people are eating immigrants' lunches?
Good call, except for timing (Score:5, Funny)
I though they were just insane, who would have thought they have parasites eating their brains?
The brains were gone long ago.
It's been all parasite for about a decade now.
Re:This is why we cook our meats (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Finally the symbiotic friend I've always dreamed of.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Re:Not just Bbbbrrrraaaiiinnnssss!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Dey took ur JERBS! And gave us WERMS!
Re:"Nobody cares"!?!? (Score:0, Funny)
Hmm, cursing and paranoid hyperbolic ramblings...you might already have brain worms.
Maybe he/she just watches Fox News? The symptoms are similar in both cases.
Re:"Nobody cares"!?!? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This is why we cook our meats (Score:2, Funny)
Galactica 80? No, I think that's the main reason it was cancelled...
Re:It's not a town, it's not outside anything (Score:4, Funny)
Why do you think that statement was directed at foreigners? It's the average American who needs help with geography.
Re:At Some Point... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:At Some Point... (Score:5, Funny)
Give them the tools first, then chase them around in a regular pattern that starts from your door, covers the whole lawn and ends at the gate.
Much is explained (Score:4, Funny)