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GeorgeGist

(25,463 posts) Mon Nov 5, 2018, 11:28 AM Nov 2018

Man dies eight years after eating garden slug

Sam Ballard was left in a state of paralysis after he swallowed a garden slug for a dare. He died aged, 28, from rat lungworm in Australia.

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Man dies eight years after eating garden slug (Original Post) GeorgeGist Nov 2018 OP

And that's the real problem when eating slugs: They are full of parasites. DetlefK Nov 2018 #1

As opposed to all those OTHER problems... kag Nov 2018 #3

So many crazy ways to die. This is one I can easily see never happening to myself . . . Journeyman Nov 2018 #2

Another link: mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2018 #4

DetlefK

(16,518 posts)

1. And that's the real problem when eating slugs: They are full of parasites.

Reply to GeorgeGist (Original post)

Mon Nov 5, 2018, 11:30 AM

Nov 2018

kag

(4,117 posts)

3. As opposed to all those OTHER problems...

Reply to DetlefK (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 5, 2018, 11:59 AM

Nov 2018

For all those other people and all those other times they ate slugs...on purpose .

Journeyman

(15,195 posts)

2. So many crazy ways to die. This is one I can easily see never happening to myself . . .

Reply to GeorgeGist (Original post)

Mon Nov 5, 2018, 11:44 AM

Nov 2018

mahatmakanejeeves

(62,014 posts)

4. Another link:

Reply to GeorgeGist (Original post)

Mon Nov 5, 2018, 12:21 PM

Nov 2018

Australian man, 28, left paraplegic after eating slug on a dare dies eight years later

Ross McGuinness,Yahoo News UK • November 5, 2018

An Australian man has died eight years after he was left paralysed by eating a garden slug for a dare.

Sam Ballard, 28, a promising rugby player from Sydney, ate the slug while drinking wine with his friends in 2010.

Then aged 19, he didn’t immediately fall ill but complained of a sharp pain in his legs a few days later.

After initial tests, doctors discovered that he had been infected with rat lungworm, which resulted in an infection in his brain.
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