Ophidascaris robertsi is a roundworm usually found in pythons. The Canberra hospital patient marks the world-first case of the parasite being found in humans.
The patient resides near a lake area inhabited by carpet pythons. Despite no direct snake contact, she often collected native grasses, including warrigal greens, from around the lake to use in cooking, Senanayake said.
The doctors and scientists involved in her case hypothesise that a python may have shed the parasite via its faeces into the grass. They believe the patient was probably infected with the parasite directly from touching the native grass or after eating the greens.
Moral of the story: make sure you wash all the snake shit off your produce and hands before eating.
Moral of the story: make sure you wash all the snake shit off your produce and hands before eating.
You don’t have to eat a round worm for it to get all up in you. They can enter through the skin on your hands and feet. https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000630.htm
Gtfo with your nightmare fuel!
It could be worse. It could have been one of those worms that reproduce and then leave their hosts.
Or it could be that worm that enters through your anus
Or the worms that live in your eyeballs.
Well frankly that’s on you for going outside.
If this is the first case when is it the first case of that zombie fungus from the last of us
Why is she eating grass? Grass doesn’t have any nutritional value for humans.