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Spider1980 wrote:

basetballjones wrote:

Here's one of a frog that ate a cricket that had the parasite... Notice how the frog reacts when the worm starts coming out his mouth..



http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v4 … 56a-s3.mov

That's one of the grossest videos I have ever seen on the internet.
What if it could do that to humans? come out your mouth like that... or your butt? or your pee hole!

Gamematt wrote:

For some reason Ecology is part of my year (although I studie farmacy) and I had a lesson about worms and all there different cilia about 2 weeks ago.
This professor even showed a picture of a friend of his who had his eye infected with a Loa Loa worm, he did it because he didn't want the species to go extinct 0.o
Loa Loa doesn't live in your eye, but just in the outer well membrane or something, if it moves from one side of your eye to the other you can actually see it moving yourself xD scary stuff.

Pics from his powerpoint presentation (it's not that gross):
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/9637/loaloang4.png
(yes, the worm can be removed with that tool quite easily)

Gamematt wrote:

Ashlite wrote:

Gamematt wrote:

For some reason Ecology is part of my year (although I studie farmacy) and I had a lesson about worms and all there different cilia about 2 weeks ago.
This professor even showed a picture of a friend of his who had his eye infected with a Loa Loa worm, he did it because he didn't want the species to go extinct 0.o
Loa Loa doesn't live in your eye, but just in the outer well membrane or something, if it moves from one side of your eye to the other you can actually see it moving yourself xD scary stuff.

Pics from his powerpoint presentation (it's not that gross):
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/9637/loaloang4.png
(yes, the worm can be removed with that tool quite easily)

that is the wierdest shit i have ever seen.

does it cause damage or anything to the body?

I thought there are different kinds of Loa Loa, not all live in your eye. This one doesn't really do any damage, it just "steals" food out of your eyes bloodvessels etc.

Ashlite wrote:

Spider1980 wrote:

basetballjones wrote:

Here's one of a frog that ate a cricket that had the parasite... Notice how the frog reacts when the worm starts coming out his mouth..



http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v4 … 56a-s3.mov

That's one of the grossest videos I have ever seen on the internet.
What if it could do that to humans? come out your mouth like that... or your butt? or your pee hole!

eye tbh