Japanese Sato Fujiwara ate sushi and sashimi from childhood. However, carefully watched that seafood are always fresh " anything! And from time to time, the Japanese managed to stay alive and healthy. But all good things, as we know, comes to an end. First Sato began to pester headaches, and then he began to lose consciousness on the street.

Do not iron (finish) dog bare hands!

The brain scans lover of sushi has led doctors in horror: first, they saw that the brain Sato some jagged and not consistent with accepted standards. But it was not the main thing. In the gray matter of the Japanese something was moving!

The doctors decided: needed trepanation! Sato sighed and said: shred!

After opening surgeons almost fainted: inside the skull was crawling with thousands of little worms! Those, which are abundant in fresh fish!

It's hard to believe, but, nevertheless, there are worms that live in the human brain, eyes and neck. Although today this disease was rare, in ancient times they suffered whole countries and Nations. Old Chronicles literally teeming with descriptions of trepanate skull, during which the ancient Aesculapius extracted from patients ' brains of people terrible writhing parasites.

Often these parasites were worms dog tapeworm. The bearer of larvae is a sheep. Worms usually kill her liver or brain, forming a small bubbles. A dog being infected after eating infected organs in her body the larvae turn into an adult tapeworm.

Particularly terrible defeat larvae of the brain. In such cases, the gait of the animal becomes unstable, and this condition is known as "wetrack". By the way, farmers in Eastern Europe still treat sick animals, removing parasites from the skull of the unfortunate animal with a knife - when the worm can be reached. But this method is ineffective - almost all animals usually perish.

Can a tapeworm larvae to settle in the human brain today? Yes, responsible scientists, can, as it is strange and not afraid to hear. However, this is rarely the case. More dogs now infected with another disease. Just massaging on the shoulder of his dick or the Ball, you can, without problems, catch toxocariasis, which in severe cases, facing the imminent threat of blindness. Veterinarians have found that intestinal parasite dogs, worm-nematode Toxocara canis, which, as believed earlier, people can catch only from dog faeces in abundance is on dog hair.

Penetrating into the human body, the worm develops in the back of the eye, causing disturbances and sometimes blindness. In one gram of wool sick dogs can be up to 180 eggs worm, a quarter of which will give viable offspring. They are very sticky and easy clinging to the hand of him that petting a dog.

In October last year in be'er-Sheva (Israel) doctors removed the worm out of the baby's head! 4-year-old girl suffered from severe headaches, the right side of her body partially lost mobility. Doctors believed that the cause of the disease is a tumor. And only during the operation it was found that in my head girls settled worm rare species.

"At first we thought it was a tumor, " said Moni Benifla, pediatric neurosurgery hospital "Forty" in Beersheva. - Any other probability seemed very small. But in the beginning we realized that was wrong. We did a biopsy and found that it just is not about the cancer. But only after opened the sheath tumors, found that in my head girls is a worm pretty rare species.

In Israel this tape worms have never before met. In the medical literature describes only a few cases when it was detected in humans. Typically, this helminth is found only in dogs and small cattle".

After the parasite has been removed from the brain, she feels much improved, the headaches disappeared, recovered mobility of limbs.

Parasites ate the whole island

...On one of the Islands of the Atlantic ocean incredible happened: after normal for climate these latitudes six-point storm the entire coast for two hundred and fifty metres in the interior of the island was generously strewn shellfish. This kind of marine life for the inhabitants of the island were quite acceptable food. Shells went to the preparation of various dishes, which replaces, in fact, the diet of the islanders meat delicacies. But it soon became apparent danger, which was fraught with unexpected gift of nature.

Partly, people began to weaken eyesight, and little children and adolescents years have started to complain about chicken blindness, a disease in which the human eye cannot distinguish objects in low light. For example, at dusk. Up until two young men, almost lost vision, not passed medical examination on the mainland, not bound sudden epidemic harmless shells.

The diagnosis sounded very pessimistic. Both the inhabitants of the island were seriously damaged optic nerve, and, according to the specialist, the nerve of the eye looked as if someone adorning their corrosive tissue acid. Then suddenly one patient with impaired vision went into convulsions, drowsiness, hallucinations. After connecting to the system of intensive care he suddenly died half an hour later.

Doctors in confusion spread his arms. And only the opening and scanning hemispheres of the brain led to the solution of the "phenomenon of blindness" on the island. The eyeball hid in themselves larvae rare species of invertebrates worms that are found in the depths of the ocean. And the frontal part of the brain has been the introduction of adults with a length of about a centimeter or two and a diameter of three to three and a half millimeters.

This kind of worms, according to biologists, parasitizes on mollusks of the seabed. Larvae penetrate in gelatinous body of the animal, Mature within six-seven days and... start to eat his master's from the inside, stachivaya his body, eating a living protein. After the body of mollusk completely eaten, the adult worms slip into the gaps shell and go for the exploration and conquest of the territory for the next generation of worms-killers.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of people on the island took meat affected shellfish and to save them was not possible, the process of destruction of the vitreous body of human organ of vision was irreversible. Probably jelly filling eyes proved extremely useful and nourishing environment for worms and their larvae. However, as the parasites they grew up, they wanted to have more and more food, so they soon discovered the existence of brain tissue, which came to their taste. In the result during the week people have died a painful death.

After deserted island and its tragedy was made public, it became clear that this fact "eating" a large number of people has its precedent in history.

Professor Plucinski from new York with documents in hand proved that catastrophe caused sunken in 1984 vessel "Twist-M" - is also the work of bloodthirsty worms-killers. Found on Board the corpses had similar injuries eyeball and brain, but the autopsy of the bodies were not found a single hint at the presence in the body of seafarers worms. Therefore, the crash was blamed on external weather factors, and about the strange destruction of brain matter in the official report did not say a word.

Killer from the Volga

It would seem, well, what is that to us their tropical worms? We are not there. And yet, incredibly, scary, but the fact of catching the deadly overseas parasite today it is possible even on an ordinary fishing in Central Russia!

Not so long ago the victim of a horrible worm was the resident of the military town of Kapustin Yar, that a few hundred kilometers from Volgograd. He avid Amateur fishing, miraculously survived after the drink of cool water from the Volga. The parasite manifested itself after a couple of months.

"Dracunculiasis, that is the name of the worm, trapped in the stomach men with river water broke through the intestinal wall and after a long trip to the tissues and vessels settled in subcutaneous tissues in the neck of his master. Healthy before, the man began to melt in her eyes to the great horror of relatives and friends. Affected horrible worm, he suddenly became irritable and angry, complained of persistent pain in the neck, several times lost consciousness."

Anxious relatives have taken mountain-fisherman in the garrison hospital. The doctors examined the patient, took tests, but not finding the cause of ailments, was released back home. In medical books nothing was said about the parasite, because it was believed that that was completely destroyed in the distant 1947 and will never appear on Russian soil.

By happy coincidence, one of the doctors has been the textbook from which he, as a student, was preparing for exams. In an old book casually mentioned about some of the parasite the dracunculiasis, the habitat of which is a muscular fabric.

Upon repeated examination on the patient's neck was discovered a lump the size of a pigeon's egg, which appeared, according to the patient, a couple of weeks ago. When after a light cut from the wound appeared the head of a worm milky color, medical personnel in horror recoiled from the patient.

"Pulled out of the parasite whole Poltora hours, as an adult dracunculiasis usually vymachivanie in length far beyond the meter. And its width is not more than 2 millimeters, and the slightest awkward movement of the physician can lead to rupture of the worm that subsequently affects the state of the victim. After all, like any other parasite, broken worm finds new life."

Ruthless Corot

Dangerous to life, turns out to eat and common action. You can pick up on their neck or head of another worm is a parasite, or worse - to remain without a penis!

The English edition of "The Sunday Telegraph" writes in this regard that in Malaysia, a disease in which the member of " crawls" in the human body, called koro, in China - shook jong. In this disease the man beats in convulsions, breathing is interrupted, he had hallucinations, often death. However, many men become asexual, not waiting for death themselves commit suicide.

Doctors believe that the epidemic Corot, okutyvaya Singapore in 1967, was caused by eating infected pork. Shortly before that, a large number of these animals was made new vaccinated against various diseases. What happened afterwards in the bodies of pigs, unknown. However, people noticed that the grunts were dying convulsions. At that the penises of animals "getting away" in their bodies. While vets have understood this strange disease, in Singapore for only one month sick - with all the consequences - almost five hundred people, among them were infants, and the elderly. Occasionally and women suffer from the syndrome Corot - they have drawn lips and nipples.

While official medicine found no panacea ruthless Corot and only advise all travelers to remember about the possible consequences of Hobbies specific cuisine of the peoples of Asia and Africa.

So if you are soon going to visit some distant and exotic country, refrain in any case, from the use of the same pork and pickled lizards, rats, or frogs. Who knows what! Suddenly, if they were newdomainname, they will Wake up in your stomach?!

I think the joke? Does. History of world medicine knows many striking instances when sick people believed that their disease is caused by a frog in the throat or lizards and snakes living and growing in her belly. And, oddly enough, are often suspected patients had been correct - the doctors found animals living in the body of these people.

The famous physician Ambroise Pair in the book "Monsters and amazing people" leads the case of 12-year-old son of pastor Zacharias Dublerin from the village Berasal in southern Germany. After several bouts of unbearable pain, cramps and vomiting mucus boy spewed many insects and 21 Triton, four frogs and some frogs. The local Church was diagnosed with incident as "mastering the Devil." Especially struck by treating doctors that when suffering boy was taken out of the hospital on fresh air, to give him some time to recover, located near the pond was zakukaly frog, and the frog in his stomach loudly kakati in response.

Another scientist, Carl Linnaeus, describes the history of women in the abdomen which is constantly lived three frogs, and could clearly hear the croaking. Linnaeus advised the woman to use a liquid resin as a drug to remove animals, but she preferred to drink in large doses strong vodka - though not killed creatures, but at least making them quiet and peaceful...

Fear dacha mosquitoes!

Live frogs in the abdomen is, of course, by and large, absurd. What can be said about worms-parasites. Even if you stop to pet dogs, eat pork and drink river water, they will find a way to penetrate into your body. How? You will not believe it - with the help of an ordinary mosquitoes!

In December 2003 from the head resident of the Kirovsky district of the Crimea learned worm length of 9 cm. Prior to this case, in November, the doctors of the Republican clinical hospital named after Semashko had operated a woman, and pulled helminth settled her in the eye.

For the first time dirofilaria (doctors call this parasitic worms) in the Crimea registered in 1975. According to doctors, the dissemination of such unpleasant diseases are mosquitoes. Komar by the bite of leaves in the body microscopic egg from which the human body develops slowly parasitic worm, reaching 6 months in length from 7 to 40 centimeters!

Most often, the parasite lives in the eyes of man. The first symptoms usually appear in 2-3 months after the bite, but sometimes only after a year or two. The disease manifests itself in the form of mild itching, burning, and a small tumor in the place, where he settled the parasite.

A similar case occurred last year in the Kursk regional clinic of eye microsurgery. A resident of Kurchatov complained that in his left eye but can't. The discomfort lasted several days. Eyes are red and was inflamed.

During the examination the patient found swelling of the conjunctiva. Under it was visible white ball, which... was moving!

The woman was operated on. When the seal was opened, there crept a worm.

"He was white, thick, about 3 mm in diameter, and are long, about 10 inches long, " recalls one of the doctors-ophthalmologists. - The parasite was quite tight - it could shrink with tweezers.

Experts have long studied the worm and came to the conclusion that this is the familiar dirofilaria. Get dirofilariasis mostly dogs, and the vector of infection is the mosquito.

Operated karanka later remembered that I had worked in the country. There were a lot of mosquitoes, and nearby was running dogs. Probably, Komar and brought larvae under the skin of a woman.

Dirofilaria, as a rule, does not lead to fatal outcomes, but the presence of helminthes under the skin extremely painful. People do not understand what is happening, feels itchy and General irritability. And to identify the worm can only use the diagnostics...