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Eddie writes "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into that snakehead fishpond behind the shopping center in Crofton, Md., now comes word of a new threat slithering into our environment - "nuclear worms" from Vietnam carrying cholera and other deadly diseases." There are a bunch of blurbs here and there about these worms - apparently this Washington Post story was the origin of most of them.
Call me a skeptic, but I don't personally think you'd want a 5-foot-long worm crawling around inside of you.
Out here in the country, we seem to have lots of crickets. My cat has found a new favorite hobby--it plays with a cricket for a little while, and then eats it. This normally wouldn't be a big deal, except that when a cricket dies, it lets out a long string of eggs the writhe around like a worm. My cat sat there and gagged for about 10 minutes because it had a string of cricket eggs coming up its throat and out through its nose.
Now, if by "intestinal worms" you just mean the ones that seem to just consume everything you do, and you never gain weight--well, I'm surprised that wasn't in that last US bill about weight control in children.
The article only said 5-7 feet long; I wonder how big around these bad boys get. For some reason, that description called to mind a boa constrictor for me...
I wonder how this article ever got accepted. I bet a lot of articles 10 times more relevant and interesting to the slashdot community than this one have been rejected.