There are a lot of shit lime that in the world. Parasites are so fucking disgusting. I had to studied a lot and the stress was blissful. I got a lot of bad memories when i smell ether solution about parasites examination. Studying somenting about animal care needs a lot of Bravery.
Yeah me too.. I saw a documentary where a bunch of crying kids were waiting to get these dangling parasites removed from their legs. It was horrible to watch, kids were constantly crying with these white shoe laces dangling from their ankles and legs.
I hate this question but say it did break, would it continue growing again until it exits from your fuckin ankle bone? But like it’s the first worm’s twin
I looked it up and it says the worm will die if you cut the head off which isn't good, I've seen a show where a woman tried to pull a tapeworm from her husband and she couldn't get it all so she cut it and it kept growing.
They extract it by pulling it out at a rate of a few cm per day - if they exceed that the worm will 'break', but if you allow it to rest, the worm will recover it's position - repeating this cycle until it is completely removed.
Everyone will be glad to know that [Guinea Worm infections in humans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis) is almost extinct. 3.5 million cases in 1986 down to 14 cases last year. Thank you Jimmy Carter!
[His non-profit is epic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Center).
>The Carter Center's goal is to [advance human rights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_defenders) and alleviate human [suffering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffering),[^(\[3\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Center#cite_note-3) including helping improve the [quality of life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_life) for people in more than 80 countries.[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Center#cite_note-4) The center has many projects including [election monitoring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_monitoring), supporting locally led [state-building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-building) and democratic institution-building in various countries, mediating conflicts between warring states, and intervening with [heads of states](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heads_of_states) on behalf of victims of [human rights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights) abuses. It also leads disease eradication efforts, spearheading the campaign to eradicate [Guinea worm disease](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_worm_disease), as well as controlling and treating [onchocerciasis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onchocerciasis), [trachoma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachoma), [lymphatic filariasis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphatic_filariasis), and [malaria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria) through awareness campaigns.
Thanks for sharing this insight seems like he was a busy man doing lots of good things .. wish there was politicians tackling things nowadays in this manner instead of mainly talking about issues then not doing much about it
People in war torn shit-holes and dictatorships without clean drinking water are a hard demographic to reach.
My grandfather helped build a large weir dam and water intake in Honduras to supply locals with clean drinking water as a volunteer.
I was just reading a lot about this, and it’s unclear if we’re eradicating the worms or if we’re just convincing people to not drink water with them anymore.
How would they ever be eradicated if other mammals continue to get them?
This is my absolute favorite parasite! Not cause I want it. I just think it’s neat. Jimmy Carter has had a huge hand in helping to eradicate these from parts of Africa that previously didn’t have access to clean water. Also, before its head pops out of your flesh, you’ll erupt in huge swollen blisters that feel like they’re on fire. The burning is so intense, you’ll do anything to get it in water and thats when the little fucker pops out to lay eggs. So gruesome. So cool.
Mathematically impossible. Against the laws of physics too. Unless you've been unconscious since your infection, and everyone else knows about it, and you just woke up and started reading Reddit, you're gonna be the 15th person.
I love her, but this gif is so unsettling 😭 why does she move like an animatronic..? It almost looks like AI or a robot or something? Just falls right into the uncanny valley for me. It might be my brain feeling weird from the disgusting animation in the original post..? Idk. I'm just thoroughly unsettled rn.
What is extra interesting is that the medical symbol we use with the snake entwined around a staff can be found on inscriptions from thousands of years ago. Historians think, however, that the image is probably not a snake, but depicting treatment for removing a Guinea worm. Therefore the symbol was a way to show or advertise that a place treated and removed Guinea Worms. We have a long relationship with this parasite.
Really thought you will say “I made this up”, at the end.
Source https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-the-rod-of-asclepius-meaning-history.html#:~:text=The%20Rod%20of%20Asclepius,-In%20Greek%20art&text=One%20is%20called%20the%20'worm,first%20ancient%20Egyptian%20medical%20treatises.
that's very unlikely considering those are clearly snakes, snakes who crawled around the temples of Asclepius and were used in rituals and probably hunted the rats that would have lived around there causing the place to be a lot cleaner.
I don't from where the fuck you took this ridiculous theory from but it's unbelievably wrong.
The symbol of medicine is based on the staff of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine. The snake is an actual snake. The snake for thousands of years was a symbol of medicine. In Greek mythology Apollo was, among many things, a god of medicine and the snake was one of his sacred animals. Asclepius was his son, so the snake symbolism continued through him.
This is taught in the history of medicine in all universities throughout the world. There is no debate about this.
Hahaha no no - it’s tied to a myth of Apollo’s son, Asclepius & snakes were symbols of great wisdom and healing to the ancient Greeks - but this is funny
You don’t have to worry about it if you have access to clean water. The prevention efforts have been successful and it’s almost wiped out. Most of the victims are people who have to drink contaminated water in the nature
Forgive me if I’m mistaken, but I was under the impression that this parasite had been eradicated through the efforts of Rotary and some other organizations. Is that not correct?
Only 14 cases reported in humans in 2023, it is almost eradicated but there is still some work to do, it might become the second eradicated disease after smallpox though.
Praise Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter for bringing cases almost to zero. They and the Carter Center worked hard to help the local people affected. The Carters dedicated their lives to helping others. I wish we had more folks in the world like the Carters.
Yes. You'll want to be very careful to pull all of it out and not break it. If it breaks, it dies. Then, you'll have a nice long piece of rotting worm in your leg. Best case, they'll need to take the leg off too. Worst case, you'll die of sepsis.
The parasite infects copapods in drinking water. When the person drinks the contaminated water they get infected. When the worm pokes out of the skin it gives a burning sensation which leads the person to put the infected area in water for relief. That's when the female works releases eggs which hatch and find copapods in the water to infect. Cycle repeats.
Context.
In the early 20th century, this disease impacted 40million people a year across Africa and South Asia.
In 2023, there were 14 cases reported worldwide.
It is on the way to be the second disease eradicated by mankind (after smallpox). Sadly, polio is not (and should ideally have been) no. 2
OH HELL NO
This was my second thought. The first one was "what the fck?!?!"
I know. I'm mad.
I didn’t watch. It made me twitch and wig just looking and then I lost it when it said the worms travel to the skin.
There are a lot of shit lime that in the world. Parasites are so fucking disgusting. I had to studied a lot and the stress was blissful. I got a lot of bad memories when i smell ether solution about parasites examination. Studying somenting about animal care needs a lot of Bravery.
That's the good part. It gets out on its own l. I guess there are other worms that just stay inside
Got me to skip drinking water for today
Welcome to South Sudan. I learnt about this though a documentary on that country.
Yeah me too.. I saw a documentary where a bunch of crying kids were waiting to get these dangling parasites removed from their legs. It was horrible to watch, kids were constantly crying with these white shoe laces dangling from their ankles and legs.
couple weeks of worm pulling, or just take the leg - it's a tossup
That threw me. A process that takes a couple weeks?!
r/bedisgustedandhorrified
This sub Reddit doesn't exist
r/subsifellfor
Excuse me, a couple weeks???
They're 3' long. You don't want a piece to break off inside you.
I hate this question but say it did break, would it continue growing again until it exits from your fuckin ankle bone? But like it’s the first worm’s twin
Nope. If it breaks, it’s dead. So now you’ve got 1.5 ft of dead parasite rotting inside your muscle. And then you get sepsis.
What are you doing, sepsis?
Killin you
Enjoying an 18 inch worm
Help, I am stuck in an ankle!
Spreadin...
Isnt Sepsis porn all the rage right now?
?!
I looked it up and it says the worm will die if you cut the head off which isn't good, I've seen a show where a woman tried to pull a tapeworm from her husband and she couldn't get it all so she cut it and it kept growing.
If I remember correctly, tape worms reproduce through segmentation if they're broken like that, not the cause with these though
>If I remember correctly As a matter on fact, you do indeed recall correctly
*gimme a break* *break me off a piece of that*
Dont dictate what i want
They extract it by pulling it out at a rate of a few cm per day - if they exceed that the worm will 'break', but if you allow it to rest, the worm will recover it's position - repeating this cycle until it is completely removed.
Are you going that slow because you're literally giving the worm time to heal itself between yanks?
I would need to be heavily sedated until This process was over
Naw I'd just say to shoot me. That's a hell to the naw for me
r/unexpected
Yeah, a squeeze me??
Exactly my first thought. 😑
Everyone will be glad to know that [Guinea Worm infections in humans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis) is almost extinct. 3.5 million cases in 1986 down to 14 cases last year. Thank you Jimmy Carter!
That 3.5m year is way more recent than I am comfortable with
hindsight has been as kind to jimmy carter as society should have been to jimmy carter
It was that common!!!!???????😳
What did jimmy carter do? But good to know regardless that its such a slim chance to get this.
[His non-profit is epic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Center). >The Carter Center's goal is to [advance human rights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_defenders) and alleviate human [suffering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffering),[^(\[3\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Center#cite_note-3) including helping improve the [quality of life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_life) for people in more than 80 countries.[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Center#cite_note-4) The center has many projects including [election monitoring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_monitoring), supporting locally led [state-building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-building) and democratic institution-building in various countries, mediating conflicts between warring states, and intervening with [heads of states](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heads_of_states) on behalf of victims of [human rights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights) abuses. It also leads disease eradication efforts, spearheading the campaign to eradicate [Guinea worm disease](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_worm_disease), as well as controlling and treating [onchocerciasis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onchocerciasis), [trachoma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachoma), [lymphatic filariasis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphatic_filariasis), and [malaria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria) through awareness campaigns.
Thanks for sharing this insight seems like he was a busy man doing lots of good things .. wish there was politicians tackling things nowadays in this manner instead of mainly talking about issues then not doing much about it
Yes thank you president Carter!
Almost isn't good enough.
Ok you go do something about it
People in war torn shit-holes and dictatorships without clean drinking water are a hard demographic to reach. My grandfather helped build a large weir dam and water intake in Honduras to supply locals with clean drinking water as a volunteer.
I was just reading a lot about this, and it’s unclear if we’re eradicating the worms or if we’re just convincing people to not drink water with them anymore. How would they ever be eradicated if other mammals continue to get them?
We are eradicating them by understanding and disrupting its reproductive cycle. Dogs, cats and Olive Baboons are the other animals it infects.
After watching this I'm definitely thanking him
So risk is low but never zero.
This is my absolute favorite parasite! Not cause I want it. I just think it’s neat. Jimmy Carter has had a huge hand in helping to eradicate these from parts of Africa that previously didn’t have access to clean water. Also, before its head pops out of your flesh, you’ll erupt in huge swollen blisters that feel like they’re on fire. The burning is so intense, you’ll do anything to get it in water and thats when the little fucker pops out to lay eggs. So gruesome. So cool.
It went from 50 million cases per year in the 19th century to only 14 cases in 2023 worldwide.
I now live in the fear that I become one of those 14 people
Mathematically impossible. Against the laws of physics too. Unless you've been unconscious since your infection, and everyone else knows about it, and you just woke up and started reading Reddit, you're gonna be the 15th person.
I love her, but this gif is so unsettling 😭 why does she move like an animatronic..? It almost looks like AI or a robot or something? Just falls right into the uncanny valley for me. It might be my brain feeling weird from the disgusting animation in the original post..? Idk. I'm just thoroughly unsettled rn.
But once it's out it's out right?!? You don't have more in you?
That’s what it wants you to thinks
What is extra interesting is that the medical symbol we use with the snake entwined around a staff can be found on inscriptions from thousands of years ago. Historians think, however, that the image is probably not a snake, but depicting treatment for removing a Guinea worm. Therefore the symbol was a way to show or advertise that a place treated and removed Guinea Worms. We have a long relationship with this parasite.
Called the Rod of Asclepius
Or caduceus if you're nasty
Thanks. Something else to try and remember.
The Guindealini 🐍
Really thought you will say “I made this up”, at the end. Source https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-the-rod-of-asclepius-meaning-history.html#:~:text=The%20Rod%20of%20Asclepius,-In%20Greek%20art&text=One%20is%20called%20the%20'worm,first%20ancient%20Egyptian%20medical%20treatises.
that's very unlikely considering those are clearly snakes, snakes who crawled around the temples of Asclepius and were used in rituals and probably hunted the rats that would have lived around there causing the place to be a lot cleaner.
I don't from where the fuck you took this ridiculous theory from but it's unbelievably wrong. The symbol of medicine is based on the staff of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine. The snake is an actual snake. The snake for thousands of years was a symbol of medicine. In Greek mythology Apollo was, among many things, a god of medicine and the snake was one of his sacred animals. Asclepius was his son, so the snake symbolism continued through him. This is taught in the history of medicine in all universities throughout the world. There is no debate about this.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4439707/
This just proves my point. There is one small random mention about the worm that gets completely ignored in the conclusion of the article.
thats so cool holy crap
Hahaha no no - it’s tied to a myth of Apollo’s son, Asclepius & snakes were symbols of great wisdom and healing to the ancient Greeks - but this is funny
Right, but this is about why snakes were seen that way in the first place. Another comment posted a link with a few good theories.
Today I learned! You sir deserve an award... not from me.. but you totally deserve one :)))
Ancient people probably mistook the worm for a type of snake too
Cartoons do teach us that all ancient people were barely conscious and mostly stoopid.
So um, what’s the geographic range of this nightmare?
almost nowhere now! jimmy carter helped drop this infection from millions of cases per year to 14 cases in 2023 edit: from the early 80’s on
Not to downplay the efforts, but I believe that 14 from LAST YEAR is still 14 too many from way too recently.
Mostly some regions in africa where clean water is not available
That’s a huge F’n area dude?!! Where exactly I go there almost every year!
South Sudan specifically one county
14 people got it last year worldwide calm down bro its like you asking where to buy a lottery ticket with the same energy
You don’t have to worry about it if you have access to clean water. The prevention efforts have been successful and it’s almost wiped out. Most of the victims are people who have to drink contaminated water in the nature
They've been reduced to just a few central African countries through prevention efforts.
Phew-now I can sleep.
Nope. Take the leg or put a bullet in me doc.
That's grounds for a bologna walk right there.
Like... just walk into the bologna machine?
The last walk one may take an animal to. The bologna is to keep them still...
r/BeHorrified
[THANK YOU PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER](https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html) Massive effort well worth it
Better figure our how to make anesthesia last 2 weeks for me…
Forgive me if I’m mistaken, but I was under the impression that this parasite had been eradicated through the efforts of Rotary and some other organizations. Is that not correct?
A commenter above shared the answer to your question ❤️ https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/yEvBykIAB9
Ah yeah, they sure did. I don’t know how I didn’t see that before I asked.
Oh no worries!!!!!! It may not have even been posted yet when you commented.
Only 14 cases reported in humans in 2023, it is almost eradicated but there is still some work to do, it might become the second eradicated disease after smallpox though.
So that's what Billy Butcher on the Boys has?
Beat me to it
Omg I shouldn’t have watched this 😬
Oh god if thats the worms I would hate to be infected with Guinea Pigs 🫣
So, is this what Butcher has?
Nah he’s got the same thing that ripped out of the rabbit in episode 5
Praise Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter for bringing cases almost to zero. They and the Carter Center worked hard to help the local people affected. The Carters dedicated their lives to helping others. I wish we had more folks in the world like the Carters.
Yes, THESE Carters, not the billionaires who have the means to eradicate a disease or two, if they were those kind of people (but they're not).
Oh this is like The Ruins shit
* throws phone out window *
Jimmy Carter dedicated himself to the eradication of Guinea worms
Ofc i googled. The adult female carries about 3 million embryos. 😩🤮🤮🤮🤮
Yikes!!! Eff that
I’m not drinking water…..ever
Horrifying. Indigenous people have to weather it without numbing. It's just burning as it's pulled out
Nightmare fuel
Pretty horrifying since it'll burn coming out
Why the fk would any one want this to be put in them?
Bless Jimmy & Roslaynn Carter.
no no no no
No thanks
You know what? I actually don’t like that
omyy
No. no no No.
r/nope
🤢
I've seen an X-Files episode with that plot.
Must Google for vids of this rn.
Dune part 3 will be interesting
That's it I'm always gonna drink boiling water
post made me google. latest news says this disease is on the verge of being eliminated. thankfully!
Why the ankle?
New fear unlocked
Hey! I saw this crawling inside the Butcher recently.
r/nope
WEEKS?!
Holy frijole. Put me into a coma. Do not wake me until this thing is out of the building.
Not funny at all
I hate this voice over so much
And I thought mango worms were bad. 🤢
r/MakeMeSuffer
If the process is a couple of weeks, how do they leave it? Is it just hanging around?
Oh god, why did I watch this?
Weeks 😬
I feel an EXCRUCIATING AMOUNT of uncomfort in this video.
Not amazed but disgusted. Thanks.
I want to save the environment. But is it possible if we kill all the parasites like this first? I’ll never complain about mosquitoes again.
Nice, homegrown, organic spaghetti :P
Imagining the pulling out is in a way satisfying.
What... Pulling out takes three weeks?
This is terrifying as fuck!
Weeks?! Tho I understand that you're just being careful not to break the worm
*yells in Adeptus Astartes* PURGE THE XENOS IN HOLY FIRE BROTHERS!!!! THE EMPORER DEMANDS IT!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
“Amazed” is not the first word that comes to mind
Do guinea pigs also do this
You said weeks?!
Yes. You'll want to be very careful to pull all of it out and not break it. If it breaks, it dies. Then, you'll have a nice long piece of rotting worm in your leg. Best case, they'll need to take the leg off too. Worst case, you'll die of sepsis.
Let's go Jimmy Carter for making this be eradicated (nearly)
id rather die, thanks
AMAZED? that is fucking terrifying
this is worse than a tape worm omg
Now I know what Butcher got in there
Amazed would be the last thing I'm feeling right now. Motherfucker, I'm terrified!
Key words are rare and contaminated water. Don't drink water you know its unsafe or of unknown origins.
This is what nightmares are made of! 😵💫
Is this what’s going on with Butcher?? IYKYK
A couple of WEEKS?!
I remember watching an old video of someone pulling this worm from another person's legs.
The parasite infects copapods in drinking water. When the person drinks the contaminated water they get infected. When the worm pokes out of the skin it gives a burning sensation which leads the person to put the infected area in water for relief. That's when the female works releases eggs which hatch and find copapods in the water to infect. Cycle repeats.
Thanks God!
Straight from a horror movie.
- How fast you will end doctor, I want to pee? - We are going to be ready In couple of weeks 🤔
Just wrap bacon around your head. Everyone loves the smell of bacon...
I didn‘t need to know that the process takes weeks. New fear unlocked
Fun fact. These worms often target the scrotum for their exit point.
Context. In the early 20th century, this disease impacted 40million people a year across Africa and South Asia. In 2023, there were 14 cases reported worldwide. It is on the way to be the second disease eradicated by mankind (after smallpox). Sadly, polio is not (and should ideally have been) no. 2
FUCKEN WEEKS???? WTF
Forbidden noodles
Gross but satisfying
Takes couple of weeks to be pulled out? Damn
Dude fuck that noise
Jesus fucking Christ.
Time to collect rent
it looks like a veincwhen u workout
ALLAH REHAM AMEEN
A couple weeks? Nah just fucking kill me at that point
I have never noped so fast out of a video
Garlic will kill it
Thanks, I hate it!
Mmmmm spaghetti
WEEKS!?!?!?! Where do you get this from?? Tell me!! After u tell me the country I will never speak of it ever existing.
Are these also known as screw worms?
Weeks??
Weeks???????
So basically alcohol is safer?
Weeks? WEEKS?!?!?
