• @AbouBenAdhem
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    1984 months ago

    Are they sure that’s the direction of causation? Because eating undercooked bear is the sort of behavior I’d expect from people who were already infected with brain worms.

      • @[email protected]
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        134 months ago

        The “brainworm population” is under represented in modern politics.

        Gerrymandering ruins everything lol

        • @grue
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          <glances at MAGAs>

          Are you sure about that?

      • @TIMMAY
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        24 months ago

        Rfk jr, the poster boy for “my brain was eaten by worms”

    • gregorum
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      lmao

      edit: i was going to quote some interesting parts of the article, but, really, you should read it. it’s all interesting!

    • @Chip_Rat
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      It’s the same thing you get eatting undercooked pork. Only recently did the pork industry manage to get it mostly out of their herds so now the “recommended temp” to cook pork is dropping.

      But it’s still very common in bears so you have to treat it like pork and cooked it to 165*

      which sucks, I’d love to try a juicy rare black bear steak.

    • @FireTower
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      94 months ago

      Trichinosis from bear isn’t much harder to get than salmonella from chicken.

  • @Volkditty
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    1054 months ago

    Is there enough time for any of them to get on the ballot?

  • @[email protected]
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    “Minnesota and the CDC reported that the three hospitalized patients were treated with the anti-parasitic drug albendazole and recovered.”

    Albendazole and mebendazole kill of intestinal parasites in the same way. They starve them of sugars for several hours. I bring both up just because it rings angry memories about US Healthcare. They typically work with a single dose treatment.

    Mebendazole is a prescription pill in the US and despite having been made in around the early 1970’s and costing around 4 cents a pill to make, in the US, after getting a prescription, the pills are $250 a piece.

    In most of the world, they are prescription free and you can pick up a 6 pack of them for like $12.

  • Flying Squid
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    254 months ago

    Everyone is criticizing them, but you know what they say… some days ya eat the bar, some days, the bar eats you.

    • Ebby
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      124 months ago

      In this particular case, I’m glad they chose the bear vs the alternative.

      • @AbidanYre
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        74 months ago

        Your idiots were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should

    • DarkThoughts
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      Always feels weird when a city dweller like me, seems to have more common sense knowledge like this than people who literally hunt animals to eat.

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      This kind of thing tends to happen when frugivorous apes attempt to eat meat for no reason.

      Edit: the replies confirm that humans really are one chromosome away from Chimpanzees. Amazing.

      • @Cypher
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        214 months ago

        Humans are omnivores.

        Im glad I could clear that up for you.

          • @Cypher
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            I’m a fan of fungivorous, it just seems like something a fun guy would say.

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          You’ve really never encountered a biology textbook, huh?

  • @p5yk0t1km1r4ge
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    Now THERE’S a headline you don’t see every day

    • @AbidanYre
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      44 months ago

      It was a hell of a ride, wasn’t it?

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    The health experts noted how tricky it can be to identify and diagnose these rare cases but flagged periorbital edema and the eosinophilia as being key clinical clues to the grizzly infections

    Sounds unbearable 😮‍💨

  • @Shardikprime
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    This gives a new meaning to bear with me