Parasites!

C0nn0r666

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I was watching the discovery channel and a program about parasites comes on and it shows how easy it is for parasite to get into to your bodie and how they can almost kill you and all these people did to get them they was just eatting food that they usally eat.
my question is has any one here ever had a parasite
 

RedPandaMan

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Yeah, I have. And probably most of the people on the site, as there is a fairly common one that almost everyone gets as a child. It looks like a small white worm, lives inside your rectum, and is usually passed out through defecation. Pretty common, much less worse than it sounds, really no harmful effects.

However, for deadly parasites, no, no I have not had one.
 

Arcanz

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I have some, they are called younger siblings!..Har har har!.. no, but seriously. I've had my share of parasites, like leeches when walking through a swamp and such. But non inside me, not that I know of.
Byt the way, did you know that Misteltoe is a parasite?
 

axia777

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Wanna a good show on parasites? Watch "Monsters Inside Me" on Animal Planet. Lets just say I am never, ever, ever visiting a tropical jungle in person. Fuck that. It is just too risky. Brain worms and all that crap. It is just wrong.

http://animal.discovery.com/tv/monsters-inside-me/about/
 

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There are a bunch of leeches in remains of a well near my house. They're pretty cool, and I've had my share of bites (when we were young, we used to have competitions who dares to have a leech longer on his arm... I won once when one fell off on its own :p)
 

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stinkychops said:
RedPandaMan said:
Yeah, I have. And probably most of the people on the site, as there is a fairly common one that almost everyone gets as a child. It looks like a small white worm, lives inside your rectum, and is usually passed out through defecation. Pretty common, much less worse than it sounds, really no harmful effects.

However, for deadly parasites, no, no I have not had one.
Yeah, I wonder why little kids get that?
It's because little kids don't wash their hands as much as they should, and the eggs get on kids fingers by touching their bums, then touching a sink, which another kids touches, who then eats without washing his hands, getting the eggs into his body. All part of the parasites' strategy: put the eggs on the outside: they'll spread.
 

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LimaBravo said:
Ticks, leeches, worms of course.

I hate to break it to you but your probably infested now. I mean you've got a couple a stone of flora & fauna in your body already to think you don't have an external infestations just stupid :D.

Bed bugs :D
Yes, but most of those micro organisms are supposed to be in our bodies. We would actually die with out them. When I think of parasites I think of tape worms and crap like that.
 

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I had lice once (I suppose everyone gets it when they are kids), but that was done and dealt with.
 

jackknife402

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had ring-worm once, but that's really a fungus. Other that, ticks in wooded areas, fleas from the cats once.
 

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Leeches and ticks are the only ones I actually know that I've ever had to deal with. Though it's very possible I've got all manner of other parasites living inside me. Same goes for the rest of the people in the world. There's really no way to tell without going to a doctor and having tests run.
 

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axia777 said:
Wanna a good show on parasites? Watch "Monsters Inside Me" on Animal Planet. Lets just say I am never, ever, ever visiting a tropical jungle in person. Fuck that. It is just too risky. Brain worms and all that crap. It is just wrong.

http://animal.discovery.com/tv/monsters-inside-me/about/
Everything on this planet wants to either "Fuck" your shit up, or hurt you in some way.
 

bjj hero

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Sorry, from the title I thought this was a thread about students...

I'd like to add that anyone who has ever been pregnant has had a parasite.