No brain tumor/just a worm
 

This morning on the news station, maybe local/maybe national, thier was a story about a woman who was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Doctors went in to take a look at it and found a worm, the type of worm that starts and grows in a persons body as a result of eating uncooked, or not cooked enough pork.

The film showed the doctors using thier tools at the top of the spinal column at the base of the brain stem latch onto this moving worm and pull it out.

Wifey works, in a lab, at a hospital on the "south shore" and has told me stories about people needing worms taken out of thier bodies from the same thing. I think it happens most of the time in muscle tissue. I think this occurs more frequently in people of Portugese heritage, because they eat so much pork.

Sorry I posted this on the main forum...............thanks for moving it.

I know what you mean....i'm 1/2 way through a bowl of Pork Chili...

"Trichinosis is a type of roundworm infection. Roundworms are parasites that use your body as a host to stay alive and reproduce. Trichinosis occurs primarily among meat-eating animals (carnivores), especially bears, foxes and walruses. The infection is acquired by eating viable larvae in animal flesh. Pigs that feed on garbage containing uncooked meat acquire trichinosis in the same way.

When humans ingest undercooked meat containing trichinella larvae, the larvae mature into adult worms in the intestine over several weeks. The adults then produce larvae that migrate through various tissues, including muscle. Trichinella roundworms are most widespread in rural areas and in warm climates throughout the world. In the United States, they're most commonly found in hog-producing regions.

If you have mild trichinosis, you may have no symptoms or only mild stomach or muscle aches. When your body is infested with hundreds of worms, though, more serious symptoms and complications can occur.

Trichinosis can be treated with medication. It's also easy to prevent."

Ya Think :yak:

Weird...Trichinosis is nearly non existent in the US in commercially raised pork. Usually only occurs here if ya eat wild game or pork in a foreign county

Want to see some gross worms? Go poking around the outside a thirty pound striper's stomach, near the liver - just make sure you don't pick your nose after.

mmmmm fry them suckers up they make great clam rolls :devil2:

The SWE has some videos you watch of the surgery.

Thanks Scott, I'll never look at clam strips the same way again:yak:

How bout the bellies :rotf3: