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mahatmakanejeeves

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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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Man dies eight years after eating garden slug [View all] 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