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12-09-2008, 08:44 PM
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Brain Maggots Ummm
http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/maggots.asp A set of photos showing a man whose brain allegedly became infested with maggots (or "worms") as a result of letting an ingrown hair go untreated (or eating sushi, depending on version)  ·  · |
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12-09-2008, 08:47 PM
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Re: Brain Maggots Ummm
Holy shit, can a person live through this ? This lady has to be dead.
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12-10-2008, 04:51 AM
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Re: Brain Maggots Ummm
I guess so.. the maggots only eat dead meat so perhaps it was her saving or something. But shit... sushi seems to me like alternative suicide.
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12-10-2008, 04:47 PM
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Re: Brain Maggots Ummm
You can get worms from bad sushi, but they're not maggots. Her eyes look like she's Asian. There was something a week or so ago (here?) about a surgeon removing a single worm from a patient's brain stem. They'd thought from the imaging that it was a tumor. I don't think an infection from an ingrown hair would penetrate the skull. |
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12-11-2008, 10:39 AM
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Re: Brain Maggots Ummm
There's absolutely no way this woman could have gotten a maggot/work infection by eatting sushi.... The brain is protected by a blood brain barrier. It's a barrier that prevents virtually all large and charged molecules/organisms from passing from the blood to the brain. There's no way in hell a maggot egg can pass through this barrier. For reference: Herpes encephalitis is a pathogen that CAN SOMETIMES (IE: extreamly rarely), pass through the blood brain barrier. It is a virus, and is a great deal smaller than an egg. |
