Man dies eight years after eating garden slug

[GeorgeGist]

Sam Ballard was left in a state of paralysis after he swallowed a garden slug for a dare. He died aged, 28, from rat lungworm in Australia.





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[DetlefK]

1. And that's the real problem when eating slugs: They are full of parasites.

[kag]

3. As opposed to all those OTHER problems...

For all those other people and all those other times they ate slugs...on purpose .

[Journeyman]

2. So many crazy ways to die. This is one I can easily see never happening to myself . . .

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Another link:

Australian man, 28, left paraplegic after eating slug on a dare dies eight years later

Ross McGuinness,Yahoo News UK • November 5, 2018

An Australian man has died eight years after he was left paralysed by eating a garden slug for a dare.

Sam Ballard, 28, a promising rugby player from Sydney, ate the slug while drinking wine with his friends in 2010.

Then aged 19, he didn’t immediately fall ill but complained of a sharp pain in his legs a few days later.

After initial tests, doctors discovered that he had been infected with rat lungworm, which resulted in an infection in his brain.
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