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Title: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: bijou on March 23, 2010, 12:08:16 PM
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A female Russian tourist, who lived in Equatorial Guinea for six months, will have to undergo treatment for an exotic disease known as loiasis.

   

The woman arrived in the African country last winter. Six months later, she found a small white tumor on her shoulder. The tumor was 3-4 centimeters in diameter. The tumor disappeared in two days, but later reappeared on the woman’s head. Afterwards, the tumor was moving from one spot on the woman’s body to another for several months.

The woman eventually stopped paying attention to it until she felt sharp pain in her right eye. She looked in the mirror and was shocked to see a white worm crawling from one corner of her eye to the other. The helmint disappeared, but the woman found it the next day, underneath her lower eyelid. ...

Yes there is a pic at the site, but you probably don't want to see it.  (http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/11-03-2010/112549-african_worm-0)


*turmoil*
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: Chris on March 23, 2010, 12:11:38 PM
Aaahhh!!

Another reason to stay the hell away from Africa.
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: IassaFTots on March 23, 2010, 12:13:03 PM
Aaahhh!!

Another reason to stay the hell away from Africa.

Did you click the link for the photo??
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: Chris on March 23, 2010, 12:13:53 PM
yes :(
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: Eupher on March 23, 2010, 12:14:15 PM
Aaahhh!!

Another reason to stay the hell away from Africa.

Yeah, there's not a helluva lot there I want to see.
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: IassaFTots on March 23, 2010, 12:16:18 PM
yes :(

I just did.  Ew.
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: debk on March 23, 2010, 12:21:14 PM
I'm not clicking on it....

Just reading this gives me another reason why I have never had a real burning desire to visit Africa.
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: Chris on March 23, 2010, 12:27:00 PM
My face still hurts from the eye surgery I had the other week... I don't suppose that lady feels much better.  Ouchy.
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: thundley4 on March 23, 2010, 12:38:08 PM
 :puke:  Of course you know people will look.  Fortunately, it's not a bigger picture showing more detail.
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: DixieBelle on March 23, 2010, 02:31:11 PM
I ain't lookin!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: bijou on March 23, 2010, 02:49:07 PM
I ain't lookin!!!!!!!!!!!
Wise choice! Leave it to the masochists here, believe me they aren't overreacting.
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: Chris on March 23, 2010, 02:50:27 PM
Yeah, there's not a helluva lot there I want to see.

If I want to see elephants, I can stay right here in TN.
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: BlueStateSaint on March 23, 2010, 02:52:39 PM
Two words for the pic . . .

TECHNICAL FOUL!!!  :o :o :o
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: Chris on March 23, 2010, 02:55:15 PM
I wonder if it was one of those flying insects that suck on your eyes while you sleep.  I didn't read the entire article to find out.

Again, zero reason to go to Africa.  Not one.
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: NHSparky on March 23, 2010, 03:10:01 PM
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out...

WHO WANTS SPAGHETTI FOR DINNER????
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: IassaFTots on March 23, 2010, 03:12:42 PM
 :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

Well, I didn't read the whole article either, because I was too chicken to see the pic, then I decided to suck it up and look at it, and I closed the site so quick, I didn't read it that time either.  But that durn thing was in her shoulder, and then on her head. 

OMG.  EW. 
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: Crazy Horse on March 23, 2010, 06:08:53 PM
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out...

WHO WANTS SPAGHETTI FOR DINNER????

How bout some white rice..........
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: NHSparky on March 23, 2010, 06:12:35 PM
How bout some white rice..........

You can always tell the Navy guys.  Specially the boat sailors.   :cheersmate:

I wonder if that shit is as bad as the, "Guamanian Jungle Funk" guys used to have (I got it on my elbow once--nasty thing...)
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: Hawkgirl on March 23, 2010, 06:48:18 PM
Not clicking on the link....because I plan to visit Africa before I die.  I want to see Victoria Falls and do a safari...so nope, not clicking.
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: NHSparky on March 23, 2010, 06:54:20 PM
Not clicking on the link....because I plan to visit Africa before I die.  I want to see Victoria Falls and do a safari...so nope, not clicking.

Oh, fer cryin out loud, it's just a little worm!!!

Crawling around someone's eye...

Shit, if you saw the pics during the VD lecture we had during boot camp, would that have scared you off having sex ever again?  Although I never look at blueberry pie the same way to this day, over 25 years later....

(April Razz will back me up on this one.)
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: IassaFTots on March 23, 2010, 08:26:27 PM
Oh, fer cryin out loud, it's just a little worm!!!

Crawling around someone's eye...

Shit, if you saw the pics during the VD lecture we had during boot camp, would that have scared you off having sex ever again?  Although I never look at blueberry pie the same way to this day, over 25 years later....

(April Razz will back me up on this one.)

Heh.  Back in the day, WAAAAAY back in the day, my G-dad gave the VD lecture.  At Ft. Hood.  WWII.  He gave THE LECTURE to me, and, well, ew.
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: RightCoast on March 23, 2010, 08:40:34 PM
Not looking - no way.
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: debk on March 23, 2010, 09:17:08 PM


Hey, Deb.....read your whole comment out loud...then reread the last sentence out loud....  :o


 :lmao:


edited to prevent Tots further dismay ..... :-)
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: IassaFTots on March 23, 2010, 09:20:29 PM

Hey, Deb.....read your whole comment out loud...then reread the last sentence out loud....  :o


 :lmao:


OH CRAP.  Thanks for having my back.  :-)  It has been edited now.  Phew!
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: thundley4 on March 23, 2010, 09:23:43 PM
OH CRAP.  Thanks for having my back.  :-)  It has been edited now.  Phew!

It's still quoted in Debk's post. 
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: NHSparky on March 23, 2010, 09:25:05 PM
OH CRAP.  Thanks for having my back.  :-)  It has been edited now.  Phew!

Too late.  What has been seen, cannot be unseen.
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: debk on March 23, 2010, 09:26:06 PM
It's still quoted in Debk's post. 


not anymore.... :tongue:
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: NHSparky on March 23, 2010, 09:27:08 PM

not anymore.... :tongue:

But it was there.  We know it was there. 
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: IassaFTots on March 23, 2010, 09:27:35 PM

not anymore.... :tongue:

Aw Deb.....You so Rock!   :blowkiss:
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: thundley4 on March 23, 2010, 09:28:00 PM

not anymore.... :tongue:

I thought of copying it from your post to preserve it, but I'm a nice guy and didn't. :)
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: IassaFTots on March 23, 2010, 09:29:16 PM
But it was there.  We know it was there. 

blah blah blah blah
yada yada yada yada.....


Note to self.  Stop worrying about spelling, and read your comments OUT LOUD before posting.   :whatever:
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: IassaFTots on March 23, 2010, 09:30:03 PM
I thought of copying it from your post to preserve it, but I'm a nice guy and didn't. :)

You so rock too.   :-)
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: debk on March 23, 2010, 09:38:34 PM
blah blah blah blah
yada yada yada yada.....


Note to self.  Stop worrying about spelling, and read your comments OUT LOUD before posting.   :whatever:


 :lmao:



 :heart:
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: NHSparky on March 23, 2010, 09:51:10 PM
blah blah blah blah
yada yada yada yada.....

Go ahead and fool yourself.  We KNOW what was there, and only large amounts of booze and money will make us forget it.
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: thundley4 on March 23, 2010, 09:54:05 PM
Go ahead and fool yourself.  We KNOW what was there, and only large amounts of booze and money will make us forget it.

And pictures posted in the shortbus? :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: ColonialMarine0431 on March 23, 2010, 10:05:36 PM
I know what it really is.....





(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/ColonialMarine/Hildebeast/AlienHillarClinton.gif)
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: longview on March 23, 2010, 10:36:15 PM
A friend in high school did some Peace Corp time in Sierra Leone after graduation.  She got that, too! 

After she got cured/de-wormed if you wanted to freak her out, all you had to do was do a double take looking at her eyes.  "What?  What?" 
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: Hawkgirl on March 23, 2010, 11:18:46 PM
A friend in high school did some Peace Corp time in Sierra Leone after graduation.  She got that, too! 

After she got cured/de-wormed if you wanted to freak her out, all you had to do was do a double take looking at her eyes.  "What?  What?" 

Now that's just mean!

A friend at work is a hypochondriac...we just have to stare at his neck, arm (insert body part) and he freaks...
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: IassaFTots on March 24, 2010, 07:37:51 AM
Go ahead and fool yourself.  We KNOW what was there, and only large amounts of booze and money will make us forget it.

I know I can't "un-there" it, but it is not there now, and that is good enough for me.   :-)
Title: Re: Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes
Post by: NHSparky on March 24, 2010, 10:51:27 AM
Now that's just mean!

A friend at work is a hypochondriac...we just have to stare at his neck, arm (insert body part) and he freaks...

I need to come to your place of business then.  15 minutes and he'd be crying.  I'm just a sick SOB that way....