When a construction worker named Zhu Zhong-fa went to the emergency room, foaming at the mouth, he was faced with a sight with a lot of white dots on his brain MRI. The reason was as scary as it was disgusting.
43-year-old Zhu Zhong-fa had an MRI scan and an MRI of his brain was taken. The reason for the oddities in his brain and body It wasn’t a tumor or anything. It was actually based on something pretty scary.
This is such a reason that after reading this content, you will also while cooking and washing your hands You will be more cautious than ever.
For a while they couldn’t figure out what was going wrong.
The man, who lived in Hangzhou, China, noticed strange symptoms and went to the hospital about 1 month after his symptoms started. Doctors didn’t understand what was wrong at first. When they increase screening The source of the problem, came to light.
A month ago, the man ate undercooked pork and the meat Parasite larvae accumulated in the body and invaded the central nervous system. More than 700 worms were writhing around in Zhu Zhong-fa’s brain, lungs, and chest cavity!
Let’s take a closer look at this infection called neurocysticercosis.
Neurocysticercosis develops when undercooked pork releases parasites into our body; It can accumulate in the central nervous system, muscles, skin and eyes. A person who eats undercooked pork If he doesn’t wash his hands properly after going to the toilet, he can swallow microscopic worm eggs.
After swallowing the eggs, the larvae hatch and penetrate the intestinal wall and spread to other parts of the body. Thus, the views we can see in the brain MRI above may emerge. Medication is used to kill worms in the brain and other parts of the body, but in rare cases It can lead to death.
“I don’t eat pork anyway.” You may be thinking, but we have bad news for you…
Yes, the parasite transmitted through pork may be much more risky, but this does not mean that there is no risk in other meat derivatives. In the International Journal of Cancer, parasites from meat can form cysts in the brain It is suggested.
Parasites called “Toxoplasma gondii”, which we can get from dirty water or undercooked meat, are deadly diseases. “glioma” tumor It may cause The “Taenia saginata” parasite, which can be found especially in beef, can also multiply in the body, just like in pork.
Probably after this while cooking and washing your hands you think again…
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