Man Who Ate Slug on Dare Fights for Life
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An Australian man is fighting for his life after eating a raw slug for a dare. The Sydney man, 21, contracted a disease called rat lungworm, which many slugs and snails carry from eating infected rat feces. Similar to meningitis, it can be fatal because it causes the brain and spinal cord to swell.
Health officials are now warning of the danger of eating raw gastropods, slugs, and snails, which can all carry the rat lungworm parasite. Anyone planning to eat slugs is advised to wash them thoroughly first.
Read the full article on Sky News.
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My friend Matt’s cat ‘Skylar’ ate about seven scorpions (found a nest under his wife’s bed) and had to have his stomach pumped at the vet. Pretty cool.
-As for eating slugs? Not very cool.
I was once at a 4th of July cookout and a slug had crawled on to my beer bottle and it touched my lip when I went for a sip. I was beyond disgusted.
Now it seems it was an appropriate reaction.
Rat feces? I mean seriously.
I now respect the lowly slug a little more, and wish they moved a little faster in their comings and goings, I mean what else is picking up after those disgusting rats?
-SJ
There are so many slugs attracted to the bird seed outside my dad’s house that he makes special beer traps for them. Fill a cat food or baby food can/jar half full of old beer. Nothing slugs like more than beer! Bury the jar (you’ll still get them, but not as many if you don’t) to level with the ground. The next morning, cap your jar and give it to a small child to use as a kaleidoscope! (my dad’s actual suggestion)
New Zealand penis biting spiders, Australian slugs that might kill. Must be something in the water, that area of the world. I’ll blame Obama before anyone else does.
Ah, hell. You beat me.
I love how those ads tune to the tale and I have never seen my dogs eat slugs. Dead mice, dirt, grass, leaves, ande etc. but not slimy crawly things.
Our pittcat has eaten everything from lettuce to slugs and ant larvae. I’m sure he just thinks they are the same consistency as entrails, so….
Instead of washing them thoroughly, I’ll just skip the delicacy all together.
The add next to the thumb nail asks, Is You Dog Vomiting? I think dogs have enough sense not to eat slugs.
I wonder how much of the ‘Amber Fluid’ passed through his lips before he took that dare.