Ate Raw Fish Alive, Chances of Dying or Getting Tapeworm

Where did you find the rest of Santa (and his clothes)?

Indeed. And the specifics re disease transmission are not for the faint of heart (the medical term is fecal-oral transmission).

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Thee ol ATM, nice


And the urban term is human-centipod

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Unfortunately, it doesn’t have to be direct fecal-oral contact (ie, in the ‘human centipede’ sense). Pinworms can be (and almost always are) transmitted via fomites (=everyday objects that serve as vectors for disease transmission). So, some little booger-eater with pinworms scratches his hiney, then touches the counter at McDonald’s, and in doing so deposits eggs on the counter. Then you come along, touch the counter, pick up the eggs, ingest them along with your Big Mac, and voila! From his hiney to your digestive tract.

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eeewwwww why did you have to use McDonalds as an example?

Somehow that makes it 10000x more gross

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Yep. Walked into the daycare one morning and saw one kid scratching his ass and riffling through the toy bin and thought “Here we go. Round 6 of communicable diseases.”. Within no time it was all of them.

Trying to explain that all to my wife was a task. Ended up just pulling up the wiki on them and saying “Read this.”. Then off to the pharmacy


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