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2017-04-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

'I Felt Them Inside My Brain' Brain-Invading Worm Attacks Are On The Rise – And Climate Change Could Be To Blame

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Posted by gorb 2017-04-11 12:20|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 The rat lungworm parasite was first identified in humans in 1935 in China. When did "climate change" come into vogue with liberals?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-11 14:29|| 2017-04-11 14:29|| Front Page Top

#2 So exactly what aspect of "climate change" causes this?

Posted by AlanC 2017-04-11 15:03|| 2017-04-11 15:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Brits will be spotting more slugs than ever, thanks to a breeding craze sparked by the warm weather.

Guess Brits really enjoy warmer weather.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-11 16:05|| 2017-04-11 16:05|| Front Page Top

#4 We call it Sushi.

Posted by Ho Chi Unaving8388 2017-04-11 17:31|| 2017-04-11 17:31|| Front Page Top

#5 The good news is you don't have the extremely venomous snails we have in Australia.

One sting from a cone snail has the potential to kill 15 healthy adults within hours.

Posted by phil_b 2017-04-11 18:07|| 2017-04-11 18:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Cone snail toxin? Have never heard of that but your comment motivated me to look it up.

Conus geographus (a species of cone snail), is also known colloquially as the "cigarette snail", a gallows humor exaggeration implying that, when stung by this creature, the victim will have only enough time to smoke a cigarette before dying.

There are about 30 recorded instances of people being killed by cone snails — the mollusks are aggressive if provoked and can penetrate wetsuits with their sharp poison-loaded harpoons, which look like transparent needles. Human victims seem to suffer little pain, because the venom contains an analgesic component.

Devious little lethal buggers.

Posted by Vespasian Stalin8312 2017-04-11 18:24|| 2017-04-11 18:24|| Front Page Top

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