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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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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Really reassuring to know that even if you go multiple times to the hospital, they will probably dismiss it until the parasites are actually infesting your brain and making you crazy

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

At which point it becomes a psychiatric problem