The Wondrous World of Parasites - Beware icky pix! (soundtrack, dance)

boo boo · 05-01-2009, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by [Paranoid.Android]

I imagine it makes you do the same little move as your avatar, eh? :P

Why would it make me laugh maniaclly?

[Paranoid.Android] · 05-01-2009, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

Why would it make me laugh maniaclly?

Oh... to me it looks like he's hyperventilating from fear or something... I just now looked close enough to read the text lol. Curse poor eyesight and lost glasses!

gunnels · 05-01-2009, 07:31 PM

I think it's pretty cool.
Then I want to be a mortician, so I guess I'm pretty sick.

gunnels · 05-02-2009, 01:48 PM

My mom treats lymphema from time to time. She works as a massage therapist at a hospital. Hasn't had it that bad yet, though.

Freebase Dali · 05-03-2009, 08:17 PM

I never knew Elephantitis was, essentially, worms.

Learning has never been so gross.

lucifer_sam · 05-03-2009, 08:47 PM

well it's also a function of the body's immune reaction to it. there is no specific worm which causes elephantiasis (there's about twenty that can), each elicits different reactions in the body.

it's also interesting to know that the disease that plagued Joseph Merrick (the "Elephant Man" for which elephantiasis was named) was NOT elephantiasis but actually a much rarer congenital defect called Protean syndrome (of which there have been possibly 200 cases worldwide).

midnight rain · 05-03-2009, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

well it's also a function of the body's immune reaction to it. there is no specific worm which causes elephantiasis (there's about twenty that can), each elicits different reactions in the body.

it's also interesting to know that the disease that plagued Joseph Merrick (the "Elephant Man" for which elephantiasis was named) was NOT elephantiasis but actually a much rarer congenital defect called Protean syndrome (of which there have been possibly 200 cases worldwide).

Proteus* syndrome

Has this become the new diseases thread?

~~CAPTAIN CAVEMAN~~ · 05-03-2009, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by zzz

anyone have any ideas whats up with this guy??

Freebase Dali · 05-04-2009, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by CAPTAIN CAVEMAN

anyone have any ideas whats up with this guy??

Yea, I saw some kind of documentary about him. It's some abnormality that causes warts to grow uncontrollably. I forget the details, but after years and years of not doing anything about it, it got that bad.
Supposedly he's getting treatment and getting all that surgically removed.

~~CAPTAIN CAVEMAN~~ · 05-04-2009, 01:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Veridical Fiction

Yea, I saw some kind of documentary about him. It's some abnormality that causes warts to grow uncontrollably. I forget the details, but after years and years of not doing anything about it, it got that bad.
Supposedly he's getting treatment and getting all that surgically removed.

yeah but its got to be crazy rare sort of wart... looks like bark

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