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Burning in woman’s legs turned out to be slug parasites migrating to her brain (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Woah, what a fucking wild parasite.

Testing for the parasite is difficult, and they can't even detect it from a spinal tap some times.

The good news is that the immune system fights it pretty well, and if death occurs, it's because the persons body was trying to protect the brain, but the inflammation of the issues created too much pressure and damaged the brain.

So the treatment is to let the body do its thing, but to prevent brain damage, they gotta drain the cerebral spinal fluid, and use anti-inflammatory steroids.