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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] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fortunately, the woman's symptoms cleared with the treatment, and she was discharged from the hospital after six days.

And with debt that destroyed her credit and ruined her life regardless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Probably not. She was from New England with a primary care physician and just returned from a trip to Bangkok, Thailand; Tokyo, Japan; and Hawaii. She was insured.