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Posted by black_kevorkianjesus christ. that's horrible. always educate your children the horrors of germs/diseases.
this was him before the slug![]()
this is him after the slug![]()
moral of the story: dont do slugs



Posted by black_kevorkian
this was him before the slug![]()
this is him after the slug![]()
moral of the story: dont do slugs



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A group of young friends was sitting around at a table drinking red wine when a slug was produced and one of them said: “Eat it, I dare you.”
Ballard swallowed the slug.
Prior to this, Ballard’s mother Katie had thought her son as a “larrikin” (hooligan) but “invincible,” that nothing could ever happen to him.
She described him as “my rough-and-tumble Sam.”
But the teenager’s life was to take a devastating turn.
Ballard, from Sydney’s north shore, fell ill and was taken to Royal North Shore Hospital where he was diagnosed as having been infected with rat lungworm.
The worm is found in rodents, but snails or slugs can become infected when they eat the feces of rats with the parasite, known as Angiostrongylus cantonensis.
While most people develop no symptoms, very rarely it causes an infection of the brain.
Ballard contracted eosinophilic meningoencephalitis, which many people recover from and which he initially seemed to be rallying.
But he then lapsed into a coma for 420 days and became a quadriplegic.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/03/06/rugby-player-who-swallowed-garden-slug-as-dare-fights-australia-government-over-health-bills.amp.html