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[โ€“] Lemminary@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

No, but they won't do anything to you once they get into the muscle. They're accidental parasites at a young stage that got into the wrong host instead of prey animals.

These cysts lodge deeply into the tissue waiting indefinitely for you to get eaten so they can break free from their capsule when stomach acid dissolves it to continue their life cycle, but since that probably won't happen, your body calcifies them and they stay in place without pain or much harm other than activating your immune system.

I think the worst is probably when they manage to get past the blood-brain barrier into the brain, which can cause neuropathy and sometimes seizures. But besides being gross, they're usually nothing to worry about.

Of course, the image is of a Chinese man with a severe case of infestation that made the rounds from over-consuption of infected meat from a street vendor, iirc. The average person who's infected usually has a handful at most and doesn't show signs or symptoms.

๐ŸŽถ Oh, Sashimi
They don't believe me
But you won't let those tapeworms eat me ๐ŸŽถ

(Geez, I can't believe that even the 20th anniversary edition of that album was 3 year ago)

[โ€“] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

daily consumption of raw sashimi for many years

Ah, so not just from raw pork

[โ€“] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

Ah so sometimes they turn themselves into pets.