Brain Maggots Ummm

[JLO]

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)

[AbraCadaver]

That's the reason I don't eat fish

[chris]

Holy shit, can a person live through this ? This lady has to be dead.

[snuff]

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.

[Cubey666]

hmmmz, It looks rather tasty

[Agent of reality]

Was he a Cannibal Corpse fan?

[Nyckname]

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.

[mikebob]

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.

[Nyckname]

Originally Posted by chris

Holy shit, can a person live through this ? This lady has to be dead.

The oxygen mask is still on. No usual during an autopsy.

[Nyckname]

It's Not a Tumor, It's a Brain Worm

Doctor Surprised to Find a Worm Living Inside a Woman's Brain
By LAUREN COX
ABC News Medical Unit
Nov. 24, 2008

Late last summer, Rosemary Alvarez of Phoenix thought she had a brain tumor. But on the operating table her doctor discovered something even more unsightly -- a parasitic worm eating her brain.

Yet at a key moment during the operation to remove the fingernail-sized tumor, Nakaji, instead, found a parasite living in her brain, a tapeworm called Taenia solium, to be precise.