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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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              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.

  • Very_Bad_Janet
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    771 year ago

    People in Australia always say that everyone overstated its dangers.

    But I think Australians just want us to visit and store more of their mindworms.

  • Hank
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    It’s too bad that the brain doesn’t have the capability to feel itself. Imagine the fun of having a little buddy wiggling though your thoughts.
    Maybe it’d even tickle :3

    • GONADS125
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      381 year ago

      A past team member of mine had a client who kept telling providers that she “has worms in my brain.” Multiple providers discounted the medical relevance of this individual’s claims as delusions due to her schizophrenia-spectrum disorder and her low level of function.

      My team member fought the providers like hell to get her an fMRI. Well the fMRI showed her brain was riddled with at that point inoperable tumors, and she died not long afterwards.

      I’d heard other accounts of similar stories, but that was the first real-world example I had. If I had a client telling me there were ants in his belly, I’m not going to believe that’s accurate, but I made damn sure we addressed it with providers.

      People can describe physical symptoms in seemingly bizarre ways. Even if the exact scenario they are describing is clearly false, it doesn’t mean they aren’t experiencing very real physical symptoms.

      • Reminds me of an episode of one of those medical shows where a nonverbal autistic kid keeps trying to tell everyone he’s got worms in his eyes but he can only tell them by drawing the worms so it just looks like a bunch of squiggly lines on paper.

        Or shutter island when DiCaprio is talking about his dead wife saying she had a bug in her brain before going crazy and killing their kids.

    • sab
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      111 year ago

      I felt that just by reading it, thank you very much.

  • @Pat12@lemmy.world
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    341 year ago

    "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."

    • @Custoslibera@lemmy.world
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      91 year ago

      You probably didn’t intend it but ‘deadly’ is also a word used in the Aboriginal community to mean something is good or awesome.

      So this works on two levels.

  • sickday
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    171 year ago

    And she hasn’t transformed into a mindflayer? She should harness her Illithid powers. The Absolute’s clearly chosen her as a True Soul.

  • Flying Squid
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    161 year ago

    I’ve never been to Australia, and yet this explains so much about me.

  • OverfedRaccoon 🦝
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    The world is burning, I got worms in my brains

    I guess Ashnikko wasn’t being metaphorical with that line in Worms.