WHY would someone go to Mexico and eat undercooked pork? WHY?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Exotic travel can lead to exotic diseases
Unusual illnesses not uncommon for adventure tourists

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6866755/

Kevin Keogh spent the morning doing ordinary chores. By afternoon, he was climbing out the window of his Mercedes and onto the roof as it sped down a busy street. Standing on top of the car, his arms outstretched as if he were surfing, he jumped to his death. What would make the chief financial officer for the city of Phoenix do something so bizarre?

A leading theory is a parasite he caught on a trip to Mexico several years earlier. The bug can live for years inside the body, travel to the brain and cause seizures and hallucinations — symptoms Keogh started suffering a few months after his trip.

His death in December is an extreme example of an exotic illness picked up in a foreign land. It’s a goes-with-the-territory downside that many people underestimate when they venture into territory far from their back yards.

It took eight months for doctors to figure out Keogh’s illness, said his wife, Karlene. A blood test showed he had cysticercosis, a parasitic illness often acquired from undercooked pork and common in Latin and Central America. The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s office is awaiting more tests to determine whether that led to his death.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Finally! An explanation for Republicanism.

Now the parasites have parasites. :scared:

[tridim]

3. Yep.. Brain slugs

(Monotone) George Bush is a good christian man. I love the leader. The leader loves us.

[Xipe Totec]

6. LOL! (Monotone) Thank you. It was cold down there on the floor.

Now I am wondering if there really is a correlation between red states and eating undercooked meat.

Damn! I scared myself again!

[bif]

2. Why would anyone eat undercooked pork ANYWHERE?

[tridim]

4. I definitely push the limit on pork

I can't stand overcooked pork, it tastes like dry rubber.. Same thing with chicken. I'm an extreme thrill seeker when it comes to possible food bourne illness.

BTW, nobody take my advice. I know it's bad. :)

[bif]

7. Pork sushi?

I like pork slightly pink as well. But not raw.

[On the Road]

5. I Ate Steak Tartare in Venezuela

It was a really nice place. But maybe it wasn't such a good idea. After that tapeworm story I've started to wonder.