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California's Unspoken Health Problem: Brain Parasites
An anonymous reader writes "Sunnyvale, California is a town 40 miles outside of San Francisco, in the Bay Area. As in most of California, the weather is mild, and the winters are short, even sometimes warm. On December 20, Sara Alvarez took her youngest child for a walk in the park in town. As daylight faded, Alvarez lost feeling in her right leg, then her left foot. Her body became numb, and she became weak. At 10:15 pm, her husband drove her to a hospital in Redwood City, about 20 minutes away from their town. There, over the course of Christmas, doctors batted around diagnoses: tumor, cancer. Finally, Alvarez received a brain scan that revealed the truth: neurocysticercosis, a calcified tapeworm in her brain (link contains images of brain surgery)."
I, for one, welcome our new brain parasite overlo...
Finally a CT scan revealed the malady. Alvarez had neurocysticercosis — a calcified tapeworm lodged in her brain...Nobody cares about this disease, and they should, if not from a humanitarian point of view than from a fiscal aspect, says Wilkins, a scientist with the CDC
JESUS H FUCKING CHRIST! I CARE! How can one NOT care about brainworms!
Forget al qaeda! America has a NEW ENEMY! And it is brain tape worms! Take all my taxes, draft people, use those milimeter wave scanners on every street corner, suspend the constitution, I don't care, just keep these terrifying slimy things out of my cerebral cortex!!!
You just don't eat enough old egg salad sandwiches in space gas stations.
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An explanation for the behavior of the California State Legislature. I though they were just insane, who would have thought they have parasites eating their brains?
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
I don't get it. The immigrants are transmitting tapeworms to Californian pigs? Or directly transmitting them to purebred but presumably cannibalistic Californians? Or people are eating immigrants' lunches?
I though they were just insane, who would have thought they have parasites eating their brains?
The brains were gone long ago.
It's been all parasite for about a decade now.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I'm in California. Here, there are so many immigrants that we just eat them.
Dey took ur JERBS! And gave us WERMS!
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
Galactica 80? No, I think that's the main reason it was cancelled...
Why do you think that statement was directed at foreigners? It's the average American who needs help with geography.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
But if we run the immigrants off our lawns, how will they mow them?
Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property; A Corporation is the legal fiction that property is a person.
Give them the tools first, then chase them around in a regular pattern that starts from your door, covers the whole lawn and ends at the gate.
An outbreak of brain parasites would explain just about everything that happens in Sacramento
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