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ChubbyEmu case study of a victim of unlicensed food truck

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Tags: medicine, healthcare, food.street, trucksfood, neuroscience, brains, videos, chubbyemu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPRzYJwqz6g

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Title
A Man Ate Pork Tacos From An Illegal Food Truck. This Is What Happened To His Brain.
Authors
Chubbyemu
Duration
16:32
Published
Jun 20 2023

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    Calcharger
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    Actual Youtube Title: A Man Ate Pork Tacos From An Illegal Food Truck. This Is What Happened To His Brain. ChubbyEmu is an MD and shares interesting case studies of medical scenarios he reads...

    Actual Youtube Title: A Man Ate Pork Tacos From An Illegal Food Truck. This Is What Happened To His Brain.

    ChubbyEmu is an MD and shares interesting case studies of medical scenarios he reads about, combining deadpan humor and science

    9 votes
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      1. DanBC
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        He ate contaminated pork and got worms in his brain. The video is long because the life cycle of the parasite is complicated, and because he's explaining a bit about us food inspection law. Eating...

        He ate contaminated pork and got worms in his brain. The video is long because the life cycle of the parasite is complicated, and because he's explaining a bit about us food inspection law. Eating infected pork will normally give people tapeworms. But in his case he also ate eggs, and these hatched into a parasite that migrates to the human brain.

        This is an important point. The intestinal tape worm version of Taenia solium is from
        12:14 eating undercooked pig meat. The brain infection, neurocysticercosis, is from eating parasite eggs
        12:20 from a human who has the intestinal tape worm. That is, somehow, you are coming into indirect
        12:27 contact with their feces, and ingesting it. Or they touched around their butt where Taenia
        12:32 eggs can sometimes be found sometimes, and they touched something, that you happened to touch, and then
        12:37 you make contact hand to mouth.

        14 votes
  2. Ecrapsnud
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    Shit like this gets to me in a way that horror fiction just doesn't. It's fascinating to follow the whole process of this happening (complete with a protagonist making poor, but understandable...

    Shit like this gets to me in a way that horror fiction just doesn't. It's fascinating to follow the whole process of this happening (complete with a protagonist making poor, but understandable decisions). It manages to strike that balance between something that's not a real(istic) threat to me thanks to food safety laws, but is still grounded in reality and actually happening to people. Also, props to modern medicine for allowing full recoveries from situations like this, though it's a shame that such wide parts of the world face the issue on such a large scale, and conceivably without the same access to healthcare.

    9 votes