http://news.sky.com/skyne...1315158206

Doctors in Arizona operated on Rosemary Alvarez after she started feeling numbness in her arm and blurred vision.

Ms Alvarez went to the emergency room twice and had an x-ray, but everything appeared normal.

It was only when doctors took a closer look at a scan that they discovered something very disturbing.

Neurosurgeon Dr Peter Nakaji said: "Once we saw the MRI we realised this is something not good. It's something down in her brain stem which is as deep in the brain as you can be."

Ms Alvarez was taken into the operating room where Dr Nakaji and his colleagues were expecting to remove a tumor.

Once we saw the MRI we realised this is something not good.

Neurosurgeon Dr Peter Nakaji on finding a worm in a woman's brain.

On a video of the surgery, Dr Nakaji can be heard laughing after he discovered the worm.

He said: "I'm sure this is a very strange response for the people in the operating room.

"But it was because I was so pleased to know that it wasn't going to be something terrible."

Doctors removed the worm and believe Ms Alvarez will not have any long-lasting health problems.

It is not known where she picked up the worm.

Experts said worms can come from eating undercooked pork or spread by people who do not wash their hands after using the bathroom, according to reports.

"It only takes one person who is spreading it constantly to get a lot of people exposed and some of those people are going to go on to develop this problem," Dr Nakaji said.

Ms Alvarez, who is now healthy, said she hopes people learn lessons from her story.

"Wash your hands, wash your hands," she said.


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http://media2.foxnews.com...or_700.wmv

Christ.

And people wonder why I don't eat pork.
[Edited 2/1/09 4:07am]

purplesweat said:

ditto!

Living out there in the desert, she'e lucky it wasn't a baby scorpion.

Dayclear said:

I like ur avi!

I saw this woman from Guatemala on TV and she had exactly the same problem, who knows, maybe this IS the same woman we´re talking about since her last name sounded a bit similar. It was a documentary about weird medical situations and dangerous parasites and she said she got that worm from eating a mango in Guatemala that hadn´t been properly washed before eating.
They also showed this man from Brasil who peed in the Amazon River and then a tiny little fish swam into his dick and found its way right up the urinary tract of that man. They operated on him and now the fish is preserved in a little jar.

KoolEaze said:

I saw a show similar to that where people were taking craps and find a 4ft tape worm hanginng out of their ass. Parasites are some NASTY little fuckers and I try to always wash my hands when I get in from outside or before I eat. One time I saw this woman on the bus, it was summertime and the bus was crowded....she was a bit over weight and looked like she didn't shower too regularly. Anyway, she was standing up because the bus was crowded, holding on the one of the handle bars she took her left hand swooped it under her right armpit and wiped the sweat off, took her right hand swooped it under her left armpit anf wiped the sweat off and put both of her nasty sweaty armpit ass hands on the pole where other people will be standing next...made my ass wanna puke right there. If her nasty ass can do can imagine what else was on her unsanitized hands.

KidaDynamite said:

DISGUSTING!!!

CalhounSq said:

My boyfriend just called her "Pitzilla!" LAWD!

i know a woman who went on a holiday in Africa and came back after 2 weeks covered in bites all of them went down like normal mosquito bites but one was swelling and was red and hard so she thought it was infected, she went to the doctors who thought the same thing so prescribed her some antibiotics and a couple of days later she was laying in bed when it burst and a massive fly type thing crawled out.

also victorian women used to use tape worms which you get in pork as a method of dieting because the worm would absorb some of the food they were eating (i remember such random things from my biology classes:lol:)

b3xy said:

KidaDynamite said:

That´s nasty.

b3xy said:

FUUUUUCK!!!

b3xy said:

I've been wanting a tape worm for years now.

minneapolisgenius said:

Go and eat a fish out of a local lake and there you go.

KidaDynamite said:

pplrain said:

Yeah you're right...he'd never go for a girl like me.
[Edited 2/1/09 12:54pm]

KidaDynamite said:

that's about the same as watching someone take money out of their bra to pay for something...
florida...summer... hot ... humid..sweaty..
yeah i wanna touch THAT

peb319 said:

Oh hell naw!

Thanks for the examples Kida.









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[Edited 2/1/09 14:52pm]

wildgoldenhoney said:

Hey lady!

KidaDynamite said:

What's up?

wildgoldenhoney said:

My hygiene!

KidaDynamite said:

Good to know.
I guess you're safe and I can give you a hug now.

http://prince.org/msg/100/296208

Could use the repeating though.

wildgoldenhoney said:

KidaDynamite said:

scary!!!!!