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  Have you busted onto a microscope slide lately?
  We're responsible for the results of our own busts. Some of us check ourselves for worms regularly. I haven't busted a nut since I was 12 years old, that's when I found out my nuts were infected with worms.
  It was bad, the whole slide was nothing but wriggling little white worms.
context: Nope >
  
  Not clicking the article link. No fucking way. >
  
  Don't want to, don't need to. >
  
  Worth it >
  
  My Response. >
  
  Gross, but not oniony >
  
  From the linked content by Aristos Georgiou, Newsweek, 14 December 2022:
  
  In the NEJM case study, the doctors wrote that the ultrasound revealed "linear structures" moving within one of the lymphatic vessels in the man's scrotum.
  Further tests, including an analysis of the man's blood, confirmed the presence of the parasitic nematode species Wuchereria bancrofti.
  Infection with this species of nematode, or roundworm, as well as two other species in the Filariodidea family, can result in a disease known as lymphatic filariasis.
  In the [mosquito-borne] disease, this observation is known as a "filarial dance sign." This sign represents the undulations of live worms that have moved into the lymphatic vessels, causing dysfunction.
  
  The New England Journal of Medicine, 2022, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMicm2022348 >
  
  Gah....
  Everytime I hear a story like this, I always pray its because that person lived in squalor, fell in sewage or fucked something he shouldnt have. But nope this dude just happened to be bit by a mosquito, something that could happen to anyone during travels. >
  
  Or at home. Some of us live in third world countries >
  
  I think mosquitos are everywhere actually, not just third world countries >
  
  The worm is only found in tropical regions.
  
  The disease, which is spread among people by mosquitoes, affects more than 120 million people across the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, the western Pacific and parts of the Caribbean and South America, figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show. Infections have not occurred in the United States to date.
  
  I suggest reading the article before getting snarky and patronizing people about where mosquitoes live. >
  
  “People living for long periods in regions where the disease is found are most at risk. Individuals who visit these areas are at very low risk because repeated mosquito bites over several months or years are usually required to contract the disease.” >
  
  Nessus, something else to worry about. >
  
  Next time your balls itch consider the possibility it could be a parasitic worm hiding out >
  
  I'll just cut a little knick reach in with tweezers and pull it out. >
  
  Do it and I'll give you $7 >
  
  Oh ... Um, hmmmm see I got a doctor appointment that day and can't. >
  
  
  Mosquitoes become infected with the immature larvae, or microfilariae, of these parasitic roundworms after biting an infected host and ingesting their blood. These larvae mature inside mosquitoes and can then be transmitted to other individuals via another bite.
  After the mature larvae enter the human body, they move into the vessels of the lymphatic system, where they develop into adult worms. These worms live in these vessels, where they can survive for six to eight years, producing millions of immature larvae in this time, which circulate in the blood. The microfilariae can then be transmitted to another person via a mosquito intermediary, completing the cycle.
  
  Oh, and you can be asymptomatic for years. 
  Sleep well, folks! >
  
  I took some over the counter sleeping pills for a week once and by the end of it I swear it felt like worms writhing in my sack after the fifth night. Got worried about something like this, forgot my pills on a trip... no more squirmy balls.
  Which is a new sentence for me.
  But yeah, sticking to melatonin, CBD, or shit like ambien from there on out. >
  
  Why was he taking a video inside his ... never mind. >
  
  Oh no >
  
  And people out here still letting him bust? Oh no no no.