“It’s never python parasites.”
“Warrigal greens” - native English flora.
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And plenty of contributing writers who don’t either.
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You mean we’re supposed to actually read the linked articles??
And according to BBC News At Ten she was originally from England. Not a native-born Aussie.
This is relevant. Everyone knows that Australians are born with a natural resistance to snake brain parasites
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For further nightmares, google Neurocysticercosis. At my previous ER, we saw these more often than felt comfortable. Often the larva were dead and we found them when CT scanning for trauma related incidents. But sometimes someone showed up having a seizure…
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I made the mistake of googling it. Is there a bias in favor of really ghastly MRIs for publication; or do people actually manage to remain (mostly) functional up to the point where their brain looks like a sponge full of buckshot when imaged? That’s a truly alarming amount of tissue damage; and spread haphazardly in a way that suggests that every area worth naming after a neurologist gets a chance at having a big chunk taken out.
This is the Internet. Ghastly photos are inherently selected for in publication.
The photos on google images search are particularly horrible. This Neurocysticercosis | Radiology Case | Radiopaedia.org is what I am more used to seeing. Still horrible, not AS horrible.
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