Paging @Junior-Wells, can’t believe he’s not already been on this one. I think I might suffer depression and forgetfulness with an 8cm worm lodged in my brain. The surgeons’ WTF face in the video tells you everything about his case.
Warning: contains images of worms. And brains.
Waiting for the update story in which NS Wales woman says she keeps the worm alive in a jar in the kitchen and calls him Keith. ‘He’s really become part of the family now’.
Ealier reports had the patient as UK-born.
“The woman, 64, had for months suffered symptoms like stomach pain, a cough and night sweats, which evolved into forgetfulness and depression.”
Isn’t that just a description of being middle-aged and English?
Certainly got a lot of attention down here Monsieur Moles but I didn’t really think of this one as an Aussie wildlife horror story – more a case of first detected.
It does come quick on the heels of 3 churchgoers hospitalised, 2 dying from death cap mushrooms somehow ending up in the beef wellington. This one apparently from insufficiently washed wild greens in proximity to the habitat of carpet pythons.
It’s a jungle down here – thank God for my blunderbuss and trusty machete everytime I leave the front door.
“Death cap mushrooms somehow ending up in the beef wellington”. Sounds like a plotline from Midsummer Murders!
Very glad you hear you are properly equipped for your encounters with Mother Nature’s Murderous Minions, Junior.
Will certainly be a telemovie of some sort that one. Quiet churchy country town, the pastor and his wife dies, the cook who also ate the beef wellington meal survives , her ex was in intensive care for a gastro illness the previous year, a food dehydrating unit dumped at tthe tip a day after the incident.Mushrooms that were supposedly bought at an asian store….
Children don’t like mushrooms so removed from leftovers next day…
Meanwhile in south-east Queensland, another worm…
https://fb.watch/mKhU2oGSWB/
And one of the victims was the ex’s mother.
Hmmm
There is a Midsomer Murders called Destroying Angel.
There certainly a fungal bump off in food plot line but I can’t remember who solves it.
That incident reminded me of a old joke.
A woman was getting married after being widowed three times. The groom to be asked her what happened to the first three husbands.
She said, “The first one died from eating poisonous mushrooms. The second also died from eating poisonous mushrooms. The third died from a fractured skull.”
The husband to be said, “Fractured skull? What happened?”
She replied, “He wouldn’t eat his poisonous mushrooms.”
That’s just ridiculous.
Nobody could survive 15 years like that. Even in Australia.
5 years tops.
But what about Nelson’s maggot?
Yes, yes. I read the Leveret review.
So what is it that’s eating Nadine Dorries’ brain?