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grid11@lemy.nl to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Family stricken with rare brain worms after eating undercooked bear

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Family stricken with rare brain worms after eating undercooked bear

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In the parasite vs. bear vs. human battle, the grizzly parasite comes out on top.
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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    Are they sure that’s the direction of causation? Because eating undercooked bear is the sort of behavior I’d expect from people who were already infected with brain worms.

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      See, I would expect people with brain worms to vote RFK

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        The “brainworm population” is under represented in modern politics.

        Gerrymandering ruins everything lol

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          <glances at MAGAs>

          Are you sure about that?

      • TIMMAY@lemmy.world
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        Rfk jr, the poster boy for “my brain was eaten by worms”

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      lmao

      edit: i was going to quote some interesting parts of the article, but, really, you should read it. it’s all interesting!

    • Chip_Rat@lemmy.world
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      It’s the same thing you get eatting undercooked pork. Only recently did the pork industry manage to get it mostly out of their herds so now the “recommended temp” to cook pork is dropping.

      But it’s still very common in bears so you have to treat it like pork and cooked it to 165*

      which sucks, I’d love to try a juicy rare black bear steak.

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        Have you tried Grindr? They’re out there, champ

        • quinkin@lemmy.world
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          I would expect that to lead to black bear sausage rather than steak.

        • Chip_Rat@lemmy.world
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          Well now I’m even hungrier…

        • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world
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          Using the dating app for homosexual folks leads to black bear steak?

          • HonkyTonkWoman@lemm.ee
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            It leads to sexy fun time shenanigans with black bears, whether you eat steak during your sexy fun time shenanigans is up to you.

          • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            If you’re lucky! Wink

          • protist@mander.xyz
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            Yeah daddy gimme that juicy black bear meat

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        I’ve had some bear before. Smoked overnight, so essentially pasteurized. Was actually really good.

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          Same, that’s one of my favourite ways to eat it, basically if it’s a big enough whole muscle it gets ham-a-fied, the rest goes into grind for summer sausage and meatballs.

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        It’s the same thing you get eatting undercooked pork.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=002oyVnhO5o

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      Trichinosis from bear isn’t much harder to get than salmonella from chicken.

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    Is there enough time for any of them to get on the ballot?

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      Maybe RFK Jr could change his running mate?

      • jaybone@lemmy.world
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        The Worm Party.

    • Chozo@fedia.io
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      No, sadly none of the worms survived the procedure.

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    “Minnesota and the CDC reported that the three hospitalized patients were treated with the anti-parasitic drug albendazole and recovered.”

    Albendazole and mebendazole kill of intestinal parasites in the same way. They starve them of sugars for several hours. I bring both up just because it rings angry memories about US Healthcare. They typically work with a single dose treatment.

    Mebendazole is a prescription pill in the US and despite having been made in around the early 1970’s and costing around 4 cents a pill to make, in the US, after getting a prescription, the pills are $250 a piece.

    In most of the world, they are prescription free and you can pick up a 6 pack of them for like $12.

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      God bless America 😡 🇺🇸

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    Rare because cooking rare bear is rare.

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      Well done, dad.

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    The Kennedy’s?

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      What is the Kennedy? And what thing belonging to it are you referring to?

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.

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          Oh, his bear?

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            His worm.

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    Everyone is criticizing them, but you know what they say… some days ya eat the bar, some days, the bar eats you.

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    That’s not what it means to “choose the bear.”

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      In this particular case, I’m glad they chose the bear vs the alternative.

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    • APassenger@lemmy.world
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      Nature Darwin finds a way.

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        Your idiots were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should

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      Always feels weird when a city dweller like me, seems to have more common sense knowledge like this than people who literally hunt animals to eat.

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      This kind of thing tends to happen when frugivorous apes attempt to eat meat for no reason.

      Edit: the replies confirm that humans really are one chromosome away from Chimpanzees. Amazing.

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        Humans are omnivores.

        Im glad I could clear that up for you.

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          True but I’d just like to sit and admire the word frugivorous for a moment

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            I’m a fan of fungivorous, it just seems like something a fun guy would say.

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          You’ve really never encountered a biology textbook, huh?

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            It’s clear one of us hasn’t.

          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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            You’ve never really encountered this thing called cooking, huh?

  • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world
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    Now THERE’S a headline you don’t see every day

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      It was a hell of a ride, wasn’t it?

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    This is the most 2024 headline I’ve seen so far.

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    sounds like the bear won in the end

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    RFK Jr.‘s fans be wildin’

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    Well what the fuck

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    Family stricken with rare brain worms after eating undercooked bear

    Family stricken with rare brain worms after eating undercooked bear!!!

    FFS

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      Sorry… What’s happening?

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        emphasis

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          And repetition. Plus redundancy.

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            Don’t forget the whatthefuckery

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    The health experts noted how tricky it can be to identify and diagnose these rare cases but flagged periorbital edema and the eosinophilia as being key clinical clues to the grizzly infections

    Sounds unbearable 😮‍💨

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