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Can anyone explain to me how the hell tapeworms manage to get to the brain? I thought those stuff just end up in your intestines.

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Can anyone explain to me how the hell tapeworms manage to get to the brain? I thought those stuff just end up in your intestines.

you can get worms and stuff (esp helminths) all over the place in your body. often they burrow into your skin or you ingest them, then they gain access to the blood and travel to their primary site of infection wherever it is in the body.

for example schistosomiasis (Bilharzia) is caused by a trematode worm which lives in your liver, portal veins and around your bladder where it produces eggs and screws up your immune system.

also, Toxoplasma gondii (found in cats and in uncooked meats) which infects about 90% of the French and 30% of British populations (dunno other statistics) migrates to the brain where it lies dormant. apparently it can affect animal behaviour and it has been hypothesised that it also affects human behaviour since in a study men with Toxoplasma were more arrogant and women with it were more friendly - risk taking behaviours. they also found that people with Toxoplasma were involved in more car crashes!! :o

btw, Heid, lots of the worms in people's intestines have 'baby worms' which enter the bloodstream from the gut and migrate to the lungs which they then proceed to burrow through. once in the lungs they claw themselves up to the pharynx where they are swallowed allowing extra colonisation of the intestine.

strange . . . :confused:

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Another reason why you should only eat something that is COOKED!!!

that's untrue . . . Sushi if correctly prepared should be fine. (apparently he didn't get his worms from sushi)

i would just continue as normal. screw the worms and stuff. :)

Preci0us Angel, don't worry about worms or whatever. if you want sushi then have it. i don't reckon that it has any health risks :)

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