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Just in case you ever wanted to sleep again, allow us to prevent that with this one phrase: "passed a 9-foot tapeworm." Ah! See you in my nightmares, tapeworm!
Anthony Franz is suing Shaw's Crab House, and its parent company Lettuce Entertain You, because he says that's where he contracted said tapelstiltskin, he claims from undercooked fish. A rep for Lettuce says the restaurant isn't the source.
Most of the time, having a tapeworm won't result in any symptoms, and more than 95 percent of people infected with tapeworms respond fully to medication. The best way to prevent tapeworm infection is to wash your hands thoroughly and frequently. [S-T, Mayo Clinic, photo is of the Flukeman from a second-season episode of The X-Files called "The Host." I really wanted the photo of the guy barf/coughing up the worm in the shower, but I couldn't find it. Anyway, hi, Flukeman.]
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What, no photos? How long does it take for a tapeworm to reach 9 feet? I suspect it takes weeks/months/years? If so, good luck trying to prove the salmon at Shaws was to blame. Who is to say he didn't have a bite of undercooked pork somewhere?
How did he even fit a 9 foot tapeworm in his mouth?
Amazing.
Here ya go, Margaret!
http://xfphotos.fredfarm.com/season2/the-host/x-files362.jpg
http://xfphotos.fredfarm.com/season2/the-host/x-files363.jpg
http://xfphotos.fredfarm.com/season2/the-host/x-files365.jpg
AAAH, Wes, amazing.
definitely a top five X-Files episode, if you're talking non-myth episodes.
There was a show I watched on tv a while ago...I think it was called "Eaten Alive"...about how parasites can get into you body and can live there for years undetected....it's what happens to you when they become apparent when it gets really scary.
This show was horrifying. If you can find it, watch it. You will never swim in the Amazon after watching this show.
My favorite is a reality documentary renactiment show about parasites, that was on Discovery or the like, and that showed a reanactment of a hot girl taking a dump, and a worm came out. It wasn't big, but that was quite an image.
Maybe the man just went on the tapeworm diet:
http://www.tapewormdiet.net/
I would really wonder how the guy knew that he got the tapeworm from Shaw's, especially that it takes a while for the eggs (which I am guessing he ingested) to develop into a tapeworm that is 9 feet long.
What if he had sushi days, or even months before that. Sounds, uh, fishy to me.
Fun fact: A tapeworm can live in the body for over 20 years. Now back to my lunch...
Speaking of Discovery reenactments, there was also the one with the woman who complained of bugs in her scalp to the disbelief of the ER doctor, until one stuck its head out of a hole in her head. Whee! She could hear them moving around in there.
Ok...the show was from Animal Planet and it's called "Eaten Alive".
Go to Youtube and type in:
Eaten Alive !! - Bugs Eating People from the Inside Out
This is the show that you are all describing. And if this doesn't give you the heebie jeebies...nothing will!!!!
Who measured the dang worm?
The bugs in the head...uncool.
true, one would assume a tapeworm would have to be in there for quite some time to reach 9ft. Besides don't most places have things on their menu that basically say "eat raw/under cooked meat at your own risk," which techinically means they can't be sued?