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    Australian couple are slowly being eaten alive by worms

    DD what ever you do dont eat any fish you catchHidden Content
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    It's often said that a diet rich in fresh fish is good for your health, but one Australian couple will be wishing they'd gone for the vegetarian option this time.
    While enjoying a camping holiday on the Calder River in the Kimberley, Western Australia they had decided to make a meal of a Black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri) they'd caught earlier.

    Unfortunately they were unaware that the bream was itself already dinner for tiny flesh-eating worms, which due to the vagaries of campfire cooking were only too happy to switch host.

    They returned home to Melbourne where 10 days later they fell ill with symptoms including muscle pain, fevers and vomiting.

    Most sinister though was a strange 'crawling' feeling under their skin.

    Two doctors were unable to determine the cause of their problem so they were passed on to an infectious disease specialist who diagnosed a Gnathostomiasis worm infestation.

    These tiny (1-3mm) flesh-eating freeloaders chew their way around their host's body at will, even ending up in the spinal cord or brain, and can remain there for up to 15 years until they die or are killed by the body's immune system.

    Untreated victims can become chronically ill, however once diagnosed they are easily dealt with through a combination of medicines.
    This is the first recorded case of a human infestation from Australia with all previous cases in the country being from people who had travelled abroad.

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    Re: Australian couple are slowly being eaten alive by worms

    WOW the stories on here are amazing!

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    Re: Australian couple are slowly being eaten alive by worms

    thats mad like, am only eating 1 kind of fish now on Hidden Content

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    Re: Australian couple are slowly being eaten alive by worms

    I will think twice about eating freshly caught fish again

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    Re: Australian couple are slowly being eaten alive by worms

    What a disgusting story, imagine having things crawling around inside you scoffing your organs! Hidden Content

    I'll think twice about eating my neighbours again!
    You never know where they might have bream!
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    Re: Australian couple are slowly being eaten alive by worms

    Like me about 10 years ago had a fish from the local chippy it was a cod and it had a cod worm in it. Don't ask me how I pulled the fish apart to find it.
    Put us off me fish had to make do with chips. So only haddock for me now.
    Lots of fish have parasites coalies normaly have little worms that come out of the skin a bit medusa like.

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