WEBVTT - Three Gross Parasites 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.560 It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:16.360 from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:20.920 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. Here is Charles w dr 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.919 kunk Eliasis Bryant How you doing drunk? That sounds like 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.800 my play a name? It is sort of player appreciate 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.040 dot Com. I wish I could remember what that name was. 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:38.280 Was so good? Oh it was we pastic Bryant Trump. 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.239 Is that it sugar tastic Bryant Trump. Sugar tastic? That's it, 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.480 Bryant Trump. Yeah, that means Chuck's put name is as 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.559 it's as its appears on player appreciate dot Com. I 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.480 love that you can generate a play a name. Yeah, 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.880 it is a pretty cool couples the Internet, Chuck, speaking 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:00.360 of the Internet. Yes, our parent company, Discoveries Channel Animal 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:05.120 Planet UM has a cool website. Indeed that they launched 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.720 for their show Monsters Inside of Me. Very cool, which 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.720 has inspired us to do a couple of parasite podcasts. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.240 This is two of two. Yeah, number two. We just 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:17.560 did um a toxoplasmosis. Yeah, and I gotta say we 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.640 were excited about this stuff. It's actually we'll get requested 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.720 to do things and we're like, oh, I don't know, 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.360 should we do that. We'll turn them down and they'll 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.200 threaten to fire us, and then we'll march into the 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.080 office with a gas can and a lighter. It goes 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.080 down like that. But this one is cool. Monsters inside Me, 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.120 cool show. Yeah No, everybody on staff pretty much threw 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.280 in for this thing, and happily actually because yeah, it 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.959 is a cool show. That's a cool graphics. It's just gross. Yeah, 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.360 it is um. And if you're eating lunch or dinner 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.240 right now, we might advise you to wait until later 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.920 listen to this. I actually was eating a sub while 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:56.920 I was researching Leashman is sis tape worm sub? No, 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.280 that's the flesh eating I know, just was it a 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:03.960 taper and stub? It was undercooked meat, so yeah, probably. Um. Anyway, 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:08.640 we're talking about parasites and apparently pimp names and uh, 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.800 let's get into it. We're talking about three really gross ones, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.959 and technically we should say four because I want to 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.840 give a shout out to my favorite and Chuck. Also, 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:21.440 I should probably say anytime we do a segmented um podcast. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.760 Chuck likes the timing because he's a big fat jerk. 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:25.320 I don't like to time you. But if we want 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:26.639 to get to all three, we need only have a 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.400 certain amount of time. And so I'm gonna go ahead 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:34.119 and hit start on my new iPhone. Okay, well, dracunculish jerk, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.440 We're supposed to do a Leisha manisis. Oh yeah, Alisha maniasis. Sorry, man, 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.160 that's what we're starting with. This is the flesh eating parasite. 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:45.480 It is. It's affection affectionately known tropics subtropics in southern Europe. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:49.280 So we're safe for now, well, unless we travel to 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.400 one of these countries, which you were prone to do. 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.160 I yes, I am wanting to go to certain places sometimes. 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.359 But yeah, there's a lot of people who actually um 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:02.600 suffer from Alisha maniasis. Estimates are are about twelve million 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:07.880 infective worldwide and three fifty million at risk. Yeah, and 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.960 about two million new cases each year. And they're expecting 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.800 this to go up, Chuck, thanks to our friend climate change, 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:18.880 Thank you, al Gore. Um. Because as the temperatures increase, 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:25.680 the area where the sand fly, which uh increases as well. 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.960 And yeah, it's the sand flight which I wasn't familiar. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.959 I think I had sand fly and black fly confused. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:37.280 But luckily black flies don't spread um. Leashmanis the sand 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.160 flies to and these are actually about a third of 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.920 the size of mosquitoes. You know, your bits are relatively 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.960 painless if they're if they're not pain free. Um. So yeah, 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.240 you don't know that you're being bitten, and you certainly 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.520 don't know that the the saliva from this fly has 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.600 actually just transferred um some larva of this parasite into 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.680 your blood stream. And you know I should point out 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.080 to you said that global warming is one reason this 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.560 is on the rise. Another reason is because of our 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:07.160 shenanigans in the Middle East, because it is that place 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.720 is lousy with sand flies in Afghanistan and Iraq and 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.080 the like. So we think a lot of our personnel 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.680 over there maybe getting infected in bringing it back. So 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:23.640 leishmaniasis mission accomplished. Yeah, so, Chuck. Actually, the the concentration 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.919 of where these cases are popping up is concentrated in 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.920 just a handful of countries, Old World and New World. Um. 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:34.120 But there are places like Syria and Brazil have the 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.839 vast majority of these cases because it's where the sand 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.760 fly lives. But like you said, traveling conquering, these things 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:45.920 can can can transfer tourism and conquering. Yeah, leishmaniasis. Right, 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:50.680 So there's actually two kinds and a sub kind. The 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.640 sub kind is my favorite. The cutaneus is my favorite? 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.680 Is it because I want to describe the sore If 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.280 you had the cutaneus, uh, lee, maniasis, this is what's 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.040 gonna happen. You're getting get a sore in your skin. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.600 What happens is as followed and uh, this is so gross. 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.040 They describe it. The sore is ending up looking like 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.880 a volcano. So it's got a raised edge and then 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:17.000 a central crater, a little meaty central crater right in 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.680 the middle. Do you at least maniasis on your breast? 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.960 That's gross? And some some of the sores are indeed 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.279 covered by a scab and they can be painless or painful. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:32.120 Painful your breast is yeah. Yeah, So my favorite, chuck, 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.760 if you'll allow me to take over for a moment, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:39.880 is mucosal or muco cut This is the stuff that 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.320 like you see photos of when you type in flesh 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.360 eating parasite, right, Yeah. What happens is is you get 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:49.560 a cutaneous parasitic infection, and uh, it can spread to 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.480 your mucous membranes, eat your lips, your nostrils, that kind 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.320 of thing. Basically, the prominent features on your face get 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.960 eaten away. Did you google image any of these? Yeah? Yeah, 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.120 so are you eating at the time? No, I was not. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.880 It's amazing like people missing their noses. I saw one 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:08.880 where it was a close up of this guy's nose 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.960 and somebody had tweezers. It was just kind of pulling 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.040 it and it was a still photo, but you could 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.120 tell by the way it was being pulled. It was 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:21.240 basically like jelly. It's gross stuff, but that's that They 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:25.600 actually clear up on their own eventually. We read an 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.320 article from the CDC describing leashmaniasis, and I was just 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.080 considered to find you know, under the how do I 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.479 treat leishmaniasis, they're basically like, well, it goes away on 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.000 its own eventually, basically like there is no treatment, but 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.279 it said it could take months or years. So do 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.720 you want a volcano, uh, scab on your forearm for 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:49.240 years or that thing on your breath gross? Uh. There's 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:53.640 a really dangerous one though, called visceral. Yeah, so tell 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.520 us about that, chuckers. Yes, Josh, this is the nasty one. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.960 This is the one that attacks your liver and spleen 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.520 and I think it in large just them. Well, your 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.160 spleen actually can become larger than your liver, which ain't 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.520 supposed to happen. That ain't supposed to happen, and even 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:10.120 your liver and uh it is liver shrinking and hardening. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.520 Oh is that what happens? Okay, so your liver's like 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.400 a California raising pretty much. And then not the dancing 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:19.760 kind of the dying kind. Yeah. Um yeah, it'll kill you. 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.760 It will. And like you said, it is nasty in 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.120 that it is dangerous. It's not as nasty as um 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:31.400 muco cutaneous leashmaniasis, but it's still pretty dangerous stuff. So 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:35.440 you want to know how how this uh, this parasite, Uh, 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:40.280 this parasite's life cycle occurs. It's pretty interesting actually. So 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.320 you get bit by a sand fly, right, and the 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.360 parasite actually is taken up. It enters the bloodstream and 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.960 it's taken up by macro phages, which are a type 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.680 of white blood cell. So they're living happily and protective 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:59.760 within the macrophages where they're reproducing, and eventually they cause 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:03.960 the cell to lice. Dat erupts and they're all of 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.920 a sudden, all these new um parasites are released into 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.240 your bloodstream and then they're taken up by more white 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:11.880 blood cells and so on and so on, so the 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:17.480 process keeps continuing and they start multiplying exponentially. Yeah, which 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.960 is also how it's flesh eating. When when it's attacking 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.160 these cells, it's it's liz ing the cells in your 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.440 mucous membrane or around your like on your forearm or 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.560 something like that or uh, in the case of visceral leashmaniasis, 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.320 your internal organs. But like we said, don't worry about 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.520 It'll just go ahead and according to the c d C. 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.719 All right, change your press the timer. Man, we're dumb 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:45.040 in this one. Okay, So that's leashmaniasis. Yes to number two, 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.120 dracunculiass that's a good one. Yeah, this one's pretty awful too. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.640 It's all this is really sad. As the guinea worm. Yeah, 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.920 this is really sad because it affects the poorest of 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.080 the poor in the world. That's the bad news, because 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.000 it comes from drinking un clean water. The good news 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:04.559 is they have largely eradicated it. Well, the five countries 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.440 that are stubbornly hanging on your guinea worm infection. But dude, 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.680 we're talking. Um, let's go back in time to nineteen six. 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:16.280 I'm in the tenth grade. You're an elementary school. If 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.600 you're drinking behind the elementary I was in the baseball cards. 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.920 I was into drinking behind the element I was into 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.400 Defender in van Halen Um. So three point five million 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:33.000 people were infected every year back then. And now let's 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:34.840 go back a couple of years to two thousand seven 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.000 when I was into Defender and Van Halen and I 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.959 was drinking behind the elementary school. Yeah, that's scary. Only 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.920 nine thousand five cases were reported, so that's awesome, and 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:49.840 most of those were in the Sudan and Ghana, so 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.480 clearly some work to be done there. Sure, So now 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.800 we should talk about how the gross this is. This 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.720 is a very very gross gross. Paris is the worst one. 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.640 I think what happens is U it's generally taken up 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:06.600 through at tainted water supply a year later. Yeah, that's 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.520 what was so frightening is you drink bad water on 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.000 vacation and Ghana. A year later, all of a sudden, 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.439 you say, what's that blister on my foot? Well, the 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.480 tour Ghana Tourism board is gonna be really mad at you. 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.680 The Greater Ghanese um Chamber of Commerce is going to 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:26.120 be after you chuck to go ahead, all right? So basically, 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:30.240 what is it? Water fleas are easily infected with these parasites, 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:35.760 and they show up in unsanitary water. You drink this water, 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.120 you get a couple of water fleas in, or you 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:42.200 can considerably just drink the larva. Right. Uh, the larva 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.000 travel down to your intestine where they lodge. They can 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.600 pass through the intestine, which most parasites can um and 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.199 then they grow right. Well, the stomach acid what I 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.400 thought was interesting is it does not kill. It killed 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:58.800 the water, Thank you stomach acid. Right, So, yeah, the 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.240 parasite sticks around. It grows and grows and grows um too, 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.520 about two to three ft long or a hundred centimeters 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.040 long um over the course of ten to fourteen months. 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.920 And it's just the females that grow to this adult stage. 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.640 And they said it's as wide as a cooked spaghetti 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:19.120 noodle three ft long in your intestine. Yeah, and it's gross. 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.640 That's not the worst part though. Our guest producer Lizzie 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.720 is about the girl. I think we should make that 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.000 our our mission today. Okay, So, um, you've got this 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.720 three ft long live spaghetti noodle that you can clearly 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:36.280 identify as a female, uh, detached from your intestine, and 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.000 then it migrates to the skin. And here's where the 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:44.360 beauty parts oil forms on the site where the worms 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:48.079 about to emerge, and pop goes the weasel. The worms 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:52.280 starts to poke its head out and uh. Basically you 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.120 look down and you have a worm coming out of 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:58.600 your body. And here's the tricky part, what getting it out? Okay, 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.280 so if you have them picked up by now, parasites 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.160 are arguably the most intelligent things on the planet, or 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.720 at the very least the most tenacious. The boil or 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.400 the blister where that's that occurs at the site where 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:15.800 the worms about to emerge. Actually, the pain associated with 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.480 it is alleviated simply by dropping it in water. Yeah, 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.920 this is a contact with water triggers the guinea worm 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:27.000 to release this milky white substance, which is actually millions 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.920 of larva into the water supply. So the water supply 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.400 is now tainted and the life cycle begins again. Right, 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.040 So you're in the you're in Ghana, you're feeling bad, 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.640 You get in the river because it makes it feel better, 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.160 and then all of a sudden, everyone downstream is getting 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.480 this milky secretion of eggs. They get infected. Just so 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:49.680 g it is so okay again, c DC says, yeah, really, 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:51.200 the best way to do this is to have a 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:55.760 clean sanitary water supply. So the treatment for this is 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.360 actually just preventive. You just make sure that population has 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.440 a clean water supply, right, which is what the Carter 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.040 Center has been working so hard for all these years. 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.439 That's odd to mention the Carter Center out of nowhere. Well, no, 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.319 the Carter Center they've been doing all this work. Oh 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.679 they have. Yeah, since when trying to eradicate g W 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.840 d Oh did they help with that drop from three 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.160 point five million to less than ten thousand cases in 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.600 about ten years? You got it, buddy, right, Well, way 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:26.800 to go, Jimmy Carter. Okay, so the Carter Center is 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.800 working on eradicating the guinea worm. Sure, among other groups, 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:33.800 got you World Health Organization? Uh? Yeah, right, okay, so yes, 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.160 so we've got we've got it down. But let's say 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:40.080 that you do have a polluted water source and all 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.840 of a sudden you have a three foot long cook 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.640 spaghetti noodle coming out of your leg in a boil. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.240 What do you do, Chuck, what do you do? Well? 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.319 One thing you can do, Josh, is you can pull 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.200 it out, and you can only do this a few 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.280 centimeters at a time on a daily basis. I'm glad 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:57.839 I read this because if I ever had this, I 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.360 would yank that thing and pull it out from my 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:04.520 intestine in one long piece of spaghetti wolf. But apparently 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.040 you can't do that. I imagine it would break off 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.360 or something and causing infection, and you just make it mad. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:09.800 And you don't want to make a guinea worm. No, 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:11.840 you're tough. So what you do is you wrap it 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.080 around a piece of gauze or a small stick, a 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.600 little bit at a time, every day, every day, for 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.880 several weeks, for several weeks, until it's out. That's one 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.640 thing you can do. Or it can be surgically removed, 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.560 clearly by a trained professional. But we're talking about the 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.160 poorest of the poor in the world, and they can't 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.000 they don't have access to this, or you can just 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.320 blow your head off. Well that's another option. Sure. Um. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.240 The big problem with guinea worm disease, or when it 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.720 was a real real problem, is that, um, it is 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.520 a it's a disease of poverty, but it's also a 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.600 cause of poverty because if you have a three foot 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:48.480 log cooks spaghetti noodle coming out of your leg um, 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.680 you're pretty much temporarily disabled until that thing comes out. 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.520 You can't farm, No, you can't take care of your children. Right, 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.960 it's very sad. So it does have an economic impact. 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.000 That just it's a cycleman, it makes everything even worse. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.200 It's does. But luckily again we've largely eradicated it except 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.440 for Ghana and Molly is completely clear of it now 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.760 and they used to have a problem with it all right, Chuck, Well, 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.720 then turn off your time or again, buddy, that was 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.560 a good one, I thought, so as well, are we 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.560 leaving this part in where you're actually manipulating the timer? Yes, 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.200 we'll find out onto tape worms, tapeworms. This one is 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.640 pretty common, the big finish. Everybody knows tapeworms. There's that 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:30.360 tapeworm diet which actually is real, is it really? We're 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.200 not endorsing that. By the way, I'm just big on 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:38.160 calorie restricted diets and knowledge. Even Chuck won't let me 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:42.040 endorse that one. But still, uh, this is We chose 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:46.200 this one because it's actually really interesting. Um. The study 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:51.760 of tapeworms has revealed a change and understanding of human evolution. 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:55.720 Big deal, or at least pitology. Yeah, we always thought 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.000 humans always thought that we get tapeworms from animals. Thanks 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.440 a lot, cow and pig for getting us tapeworms. There's 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:06.360 some research that's been done that actually turns the tables, Josh, 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.160 and in a switcheroo. It looks like we may have 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.240 started the whole thing and given it to the animals. 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.920 So not only did we domesticate you for slaughter, we 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:22.000 also gave you the tapeworm. So tapeworms uh known affectionately 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.600 in the medical community as tania. Uh. There's uh tanias solium, 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:31.640 which we'll talk about that's distinct from Tania sagenada and 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:36.640 Tania asiatica. Thank you. I worked on pronunciations like all 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:42.120 day uh sagonada and asiatica both actually for their lifestyle 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.920 life cycle require an herbivore in there as an intermediate 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:50.880 host to get to their definitive host us, the carnivores carnivores. Right, 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.320 does this mean a vegetarian or vegan wouldn't be infected? 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.240 You would think so, but look out for tanias solium, 0:16:56.280 --> 0:17:00.800 which will get anybody. Yeah, very broad range and including dogs. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:06.440 It said. That's very sad, right, Yeah, once we domesticated dogs, cows, pigs, 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:08.879 you know again, we thought that that's when we started 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.119 getting tapeworms. Actually, tapeworms go back as far as about 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.360 two point seven million years. Humans or hominids have had 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.400 some sort of trouble um with all of the wretching 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.440 and the pooping and stuff like that, if you believe 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.840 that kind of thing. Yeah, we've been around for two 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:28.280 point seven million years? Do you believe that? Hogwatch? Sorry, so, 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.800 chuck um. Let's talk about tapeworms. What they do, how 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:37.520 they do it, what they look like. All right, we're 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.160 talking about intestinal tapeworm infections. A lot of times, uh, 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.960 they're not detected because it's pretty mild symptom. Wize, I 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.280 assume that one or both of us has a tapeworm 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:51.880 right now? Can I tell you something? Boy? Yes, So 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.960 I'm actually a big proponent of high colonics. Yeah, oh yeah, 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.080 I learned so much. They are mood changing, really and 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.720 you have to get to And also anyone who goes 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.280 out and gets a high klonic make sure the place 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:10.520 you go is ultra sanitized and insist on watching them 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:16.919 sanitize the machine, especially in our producers. Jerry's House of Klonics. 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.400 I mean, she's tidy, but I wouldn't accept the high 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:23.320 klonic from her. Right, Um, I was. I got high 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.439 klonic two of them. The second one it was like 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.880 I was a brand new person. I literally felt reborn. 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.920 But the guy who was running the place was telling 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.119 me about a customer. They it's so perverse. They have 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.560 this table set up and it's like a doctor's exam 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.560 table um, and you have certain things sticking certain places, um, 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:44.359 and then a tube. Dr Frankenstein going sure, you have 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:48.679 a tube going out right, And then there's mirrors showing 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:52.040 the whole thing, so you're seeing all the stuff. One 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.280 guy had to call the owner in who was telling 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.000 me the story, and he had stopped up the tube 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:00.520 and they went and removed the tube on it out. 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.720 You know what it was. It was a fist size 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:08.520 ball of worms. You're kidding. The guy had had no symptoms, 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.199 had no clue they were in there. Uh, and all 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.080 of a sudden, the fist sized ball of worms coming out. Well, 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.520 it's pretty clear why the Discovery show is called Monsters 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:20.800 Inside Me. Yeah, fistful of monsters inside of you. Yeah, 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.840 so high colonics equal getting rid of worms. Sometimes that's 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.160 my that's my little ast side there, Chuck. I'm going 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:31.240 to Jerry's House of clonics right after this. You should, so, Chuck, 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.080 how do we get these tape worms that come out 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:39.200 and fist size balls? Well, there's different ways, Josh. Um. 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.000 It's usually you can get it through eating food. But 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.159 there's uh, there's a little disturbing asset to all this 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:48.440 is fecal matter has to be involved. Yeah. I saw 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.480 in this article that you could get it through intimate contact. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.800 But if fecal matter has to be present, what is that? 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.480 I don't know, And you out there in podcasts, I 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:00.360 can't make your own call there. But if let's say 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.480 you were preparing some food and um, you have poop 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.640 on your hands and poop or something involved involved, yeah, 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:08.800 then then you can get it. And I know, undercooked 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.120 pork I think is one way that you can get 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:15.359 the Uh the which one was it? The solum? No? 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:19.600 Is it? I thought? So? No? Yeah, Solium is the 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:22.840 only one that doesn't require a herbivore. It's the others. 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:26.080 Solium is often found in raw or undercook pork, and 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:30.080 it's therefore called the pork tape worm. Well that's pretty definitive. 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.920 It sounds like it. Yeah, at least that's what Dr 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.399 Hoburg says. It's so. One of the things I found 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.280 disturbing was this. So you know how tapeworms are segmented. 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.600 First of all, they can grow up to sixty twenty 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:47.280 meters long. That's disturbing, And they're heavily segmented. Each segment 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:53.560 can contain up to forty thousand eggs larva eggs um. 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:57.240 These eggs can actually live twenty five years out in 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:01.560 the open. So if you poop somewhere like in the 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:05.879 desert at age, if you go back and visit your 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:09.719 poop in the desert age fifty, if there were taper 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:12.080 makes in there, you could consuerably eat them and start 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:14.639 it over again. That's crazy, isn't that gross? That is 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:18.960 and if you swallow these eggs, josh, uh, the larvae 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:23.360 can actually penetrate your intestinal wall and lodge in an 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:27.880 organ or form a cyst. Well, yeah, they can form 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:30.240 brain cysts. They can also attach They can attach to 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:33.160 any organ, including your eye and brain, which can cause. 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.399 They've said they've linked it to blindness and epilepsy and 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:44.000 insanity and um seizures. Yeah, what else is there? Um? Paralysis, UM, 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:49.480 A lack of equilibrium, Yeah, like vertigo, dizziness, that kind 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:53.280 of thing. It's bad stuff, it is, So stay away 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:56.440 from dirty pigs and don't cook if you have poop 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:59.720 on your hands, just get somebody else to cook an 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.000 maybe go out to eat. Yeah, that's a good call. 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.200 Does that it on tape worms? Yeah? We already covered 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:09.159 the part about how it turns out we infected livestock, right, 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:13.399 sorry pigs. So that's three uh three gross parasite Again. 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:14.800 I want to say I want to give a shout 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:17.920 out to my favorite which we didn't cover because there's 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:20.600 actually a dearth of information out there on it. It's 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:24.600 called the human bot fly, bot fly, the fly. Did 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:27.200 you read my blog post on it? Did you watched 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:32.240 the video? And that's awesome? So the bot fly actually 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:35.520 doesn't sting or lay its eggs or spread its larva 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:40.840 directly into humans. It uses um mosquitoes to do it 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:44.680 for him. So these flies actually capture mosquito midflight, lay 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:47.040 some eggs on it, and then the mosquito flies around 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:49.879 with the eggs until they hatch into larva. Once the 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:55.800 larva hatch, the mosquito um plunges its proposes into a 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:58.840 human or any any mammal I believe in to me 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:02.960 there in the so the larva are actually transferred. They 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:05.440 go under the under the skin, so there and eat 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:10.760 your fatty tissue for several weeks, and then finally a 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:14.880