And THAT is why you never visit the Brain Slug planet.
Nice reporting there FOXie! What kind of worm? Nightcrawler? Bot fly? Long slender slimy one? Short fat juicy one?
Fox “Health News” writers really don’t sweat the informational content at all, do they?
“Should we say what kind of worm it was? Do we even know what kind of worm this is?”
“No, but we have a picture!”
“Awesome! Okay, just call it a worm.”
In summary: Beware of worms.
What. The EVERLOVIN’. Fuck.
Brain parasites, it could be the news story didn’t say what worm it was, because there is more than one kind.
“Doctors emphasized that further surgery would be necessary to remove all the pinochle cards.”
I like the surgeon’s reaction particularly:
Remember, folks: In Arizona, a live worm is one of the least terrible things that a surgeon can extract from your living brain. I wonder what else this guy has pulled out of the brains of Phoenix citizens during his career. A coke spoon? A frog? A used condom? He probably keeps all this stuff in his desk drawer and shows it during consultations.
In all seriousness : malignant cancer. Think about it; yeah, the worm is disgusting - but now it’s gone.
I’m just blown away by the fact that its FOX News reporting on a worm that eats brains.
(I mean, whatever happened to professional courtesy? :D)
I hadn’t heard that one before.
Cripes! Bring the whole room down, why don’t you? Now you make me feel all awkward and insensitive, just for joking about the worm in a paralyzed woman’s brain.
But seriously, folks: if I may take a moment here to speak from the heart… we’ve had a lot of fun here tonight at the expense of people with things in their brains. But the truth is that, every day, people are waking up with things in their brains. This is happening to countless people around the world-- disadvantaged people, who have no money to remove things that get into their brains. Just think of the children who face the prospect of growing up with things in their brains. Julio is 12 years old. Since birth, he has had a Michigan State Spartans keyring in his brain. The other village children taunt him. Kwame is only 8 years old, yet he already has a colony of pocket gophers and a distributor cap in his brain. Little Kimiko is only 3, yet she cannot be legally adopted because her brain contains a critically endangered black-footed ferret. We don’t know why this happens. We don’t know how these things get in their brains. But science continues to search for an answer. We are so close, people. So, please: give generously to the Foundation for Finding Out How Things Get in People’s Brains. Every donation counts. Every penny is a step closer to a day when people no longer have things in their brains. Do it for the kids. Do it for their brains.
Consider the source.
Zombie Humor: What worse than eating brains and finding worm?
Uh-uh… Braaaaaaains?
Seriously. These things matter, “reporters”!!!
But reading between the lines, the doctor mentioned eating undercooked pork, so a pork tapeworm or Taenia solium, is a good guess. There’s a good bit about it in the article **picunurse **linked to.
Thank you.
Happy to help. 
Keep your personal issues with other posters confined to the Pit, please.
The video of them removing the still-squiggling worm was actually really cool!
link?