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Promising rugby player who became a paraplegic after swallowing a garden slug as a dare at a birthday party dies aged 28 - after an eight year battle with a parasite infection
  • Sam Ballard has died eight years after a dare among mates left him a paraplegic
  • Mr Ballard was just 19 when he swallowed a garden slug at a 2010 backyard party
  • The promising rugby player spent three years in a coma, before leaving hospital
  • Mr Ballard had been closely supported by his mates since the night of incident

A gifted rugby player who became a paraplegic after swallowing a garden slug as a dare has died after an eight-year battle with a parasite infection.

Sam Ballard, 28, spent three years in hospital after eating the garden slug at a party in 2010 when he was just 19.

The 'cheeky larrikin' passed away on Friday surrounded by family and a loyal group of friends after years of medical complications following the incident.

Mr Ballard's last words to his mother Katie were: 'I love you'.


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It's sad but really how stupid can you be. Wtf did he think would happen? Just shyt out?



I would never knowingly eat any bug but i'd think your stomach acid would kill it. At worst you'd think they'd be able to give you antibiotics. So what this one slug kept growing or did it have babies
 
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I would never knowingly eat any bug but i'd think your stomach acid would kill it. At worst you'd think they'd be able to give you antibiotics. So what this one slug kept growing or did it have babies

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rat-lungworm-infects-12-across-u-s-cdc-finds-n896981

Rat lungworm is a nematode whose scientific name is Angiostrongylus cantonensis. It has a stomach-churning life cycle that starts in rats.

“Their normal route in the rat is that they are ingested, they penetrate the intestine and they make their way to the brain, where they develop,” said Heather Stockdale Walden, a parasitologist at the University of Florida who has studied the worm.

“They come back to the pulmonary artery in the rat and they reproduce.” Rats excrete it and it can get picked up by snails and slugs, some of which are very tiny. The CDC explains its life cycle in a video.

“In humans or horse or dog or bird it’ll still penetrate the intestine and it’ll enter the circulation and go to the brain and that’s where it stops. It doesn’t finish its development into the worm,” Walden said in a telephone interview.
 
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