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  • Ready! Player 31
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    981 year ago

    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.

      • Roboticide
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        581 year ago

        That’s not true, 70% of all human crops are grasses. “Grass” is much more than just the typical American lawn.

        Various grasses can be used as spices or herbs, like lemongrass, and the “warigal greens” mentioned are a type of spinach.

        • SokathHisEyesOpen
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          Maybe this is a cultural difference. In the USA we don’t call any produce “grass”, other than things like lemon grass, which gets called by its full name. No one would say “grass” when referring to spinach. Actual grass, like lawn grass, or plains grass, doesn’t really have much nutritional value to us because our stomachs can’t break it down enough.

          • @Jax@sh.itjust.works
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            151 year ago

            Crabgrass, Rice, Wheatgrass, Sorghum, Wheat, Bluegrass, Cat Grass, Brome, Rye, Goosegrass, Timothy grass.

            All edible grass.

            I find it amusing you used the term “actual grass” then tried to explain it to them as if they were somehow mistaken because of cultural differences.

            No, sweetie, you’re just ignorant.

            • SokathHisEyesOpen
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              1 year ago

              Thanks for curing me of my ignorance. I’ll remember to say “I’d like a steaming hot bowl of grass” next time I order rice at a restaurant. You’re the best!

              • @3ntranced@lemmy.world
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                81 year ago

                I don’t understand why youre being down voted, it’s like saying “oh yeah, love me some tomatoes in my fruit salad”. Like sure, tomatoes are fruits, but you’re not going to receive one if you ever like order “fruit”.

          • @Chocrates@lemmy.world
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            71 year ago

            Eh it depends on context. Lawn grass is one thing but wheat is a grass, palm “trees” are a grass. All kinds of things are grasses

          • Roboticide
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            61 year ago

            I mean, it’s maybe cultural to a degree, it’s an Australian article and I’m American, but like, it’s still grass. “Actual” isn’t a scientific or technical term.

            And for all we know, she was picking lemongrass in addition to the greens.

          • Hank
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            51 year ago

            Nah it is commonly used to describe plants in the Poaceae family which includes grains, rice, bamboo, sugar cane and lots of others.
            Spinach is not in that family.