Ophidascaris robertsi is a roundworm usually found in pythons. The Canberra hospital patient marks the world-first case of the parasite being found in humans.
The patient resides near a lake area inhabited by carpet pythons. Despite no direct snake contact, she often collected native grasses, including warrigal greens, from around the lake to use in cooking, Senanayake said.
The doctors and scientists involved in her case hypothesise that a python may have shed the parasite via its faeces into the grass. They believe the patient was probably infected with the parasite directly from touching the native grass or after eating the greens.
Moral of the story: make sure you wash all the snake shit off your produce and hands before eating.
Maybe this is a cultural difference. In the USA we don’t call any produce “grass”, other than things like lemon grass, which gets called by its full name. No one would say “grass” when referring to spinach. Actual grass, like lawn grass, or plains grass, doesn’t really have much nutritional value to us because our stomachs can’t break it down enough.
Thanks for curing me of my ignorance. I’ll remember to say “I’d like a steaming hot bowl of grass” next time I order rice at a restaurant. You’re the best!
I don’t understand why youre being down voted, it’s like saying “oh yeah, love me some tomatoes in my fruit salad”. Like sure, tomatoes are fruits, but you’re not going to receive one if you ever like order “fruit”.
I mean, it’s maybe cultural to a degree, it’s an Australian article and I’m American, but like, it’s still grass. “Actual” isn’t a scientific or technical term.
And for all we know, she was picking lemongrass in addition to the greens.
Nah it is commonly used to describe plants in the Poaceae family which includes grains, rice, bamboo, sugar cane and lots of others.
Spinach is not in that family.
Moral of the story: make sure you wash all the snake shit off your produce and hands before eating.
You don’t have to eat a round worm for it to get all up in you. They can enter through the skin on your hands and feet. https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000630.htm
Gtfo with your nightmare fuel!
It could be worse. It could have been one of those worms that reproduce and then leave their hosts.
Or it could be that worm that enters through your anus
Or the worms that live in your eyeballs.
Well frankly that’s on you for going outside.
If this is the first case when is it the first case of that zombie fungus from the last of us
Why is she eating grass? Grass doesn’t have any nutritional value for humans.
That’s not true, 70% of all human crops are grasses. “Grass” is much more than just the typical American lawn.
Various grasses can be used as spices or herbs, like lemongrass, and the “warigal greens” mentioned are a type of spinach.
Maybe this is a cultural difference. In the USA we don’t call any produce “grass”, other than things like lemon grass, which gets called by its full name. No one would say “grass” when referring to spinach. Actual grass, like lawn grass, or plains grass, doesn’t really have much nutritional value to us because our stomachs can’t break it down enough.
Just because we don’t call it grass doesn’t mean things aren’t grass.
Pretty much all the grains we eat are grass seeds.
Crabgrass, Rice, Wheatgrass, Sorghum, Wheat, Bluegrass, Cat Grass, Brome, Rye, Goosegrass, Timothy grass.
All edible grass.
I find it amusing you used the term “actual grass” then tried to explain it to them as if they were somehow mistaken because of cultural differences.
No, sweetie, you’re just ignorant.
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Thanks for curing me of my ignorance. I’ll remember to say “I’d like a steaming hot bowl of grass” next time I order rice at a restaurant. You’re the best!
I know this is getting downvoted but holy fuck I’m laughing
I don’t understand why youre being down voted, it’s like saying “oh yeah, love me some tomatoes in my fruit salad”. Like sure, tomatoes are fruits, but you’re not going to receive one if you ever like order “fruit”.
And we also use grass to refer to marijuana, which is also not a grass.
Right? The conversation is easily solved with “she was eating salad greens, not actual grass”. Pendants enjoying their pedantry.
Eh it depends on context. Lawn grass is one thing but wheat is a grass, palm “trees” are a grass. All kinds of things are grasses
I mean, it’s maybe cultural to a degree, it’s an Australian article and I’m American, but like, it’s still grass. “Actual” isn’t a scientific or technical term.
And for all we know, she was picking lemongrass in addition to the greens.
Nah it is commonly used to describe plants in the Poaceae family which includes grains, rice, bamboo, sugar cane and lots of others.
Spinach is not in that family.