Surprised doctors find 10-inch worm in man's groin during elective surgery

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/surprised-doctors-find-10-inch-worm-in-mans-groin-during-elective-surgery/

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celeste@kbin.earth · 132 pts · 52d (1 reply)

This is the second worm found in this guy...

For unexplained reasons, the [first] worm was not identified, and he was not treated with anti-parasitic drugs after the discovery.

I'm trying to imagine pulling a parasite out of a guy and not even wondering what kind it is.

UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 52d

Who’s your worm guy?

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 122 pts · 52d (4 replies)

It was still alive, and slithered and squirmed on the surgical table.

Great.

YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz · 80 pts · 52d (3 replies)

Google how do I delete someone else’s account

blazeknave@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 52d

*how to delete my eyes

macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 52d

Use a better search like Bing or duckduckgo. googol sucks and was never any good.

Doom@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 52d

If it's Instagram you can ask their AI to do it for you.

Deme@sopuli.xyz · 89 pts · 52d (5 replies)

The man’s only recollection of a possible exposure was eating raw snake meat during military service 50 years prior.

Based

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 52d

Oh, it's just baby snakes

slaacaa@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 51d

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 51d

Oh, thank god the snake meat I ate during military service 50 years ago was cooked! 🥴

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d (1 reply)

Hooray for hazing.

JamesTBagg@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 51d

It's not hazing. I'll bet it was during the Cobra Gold exercise, during which Thailand hosts various militaries including the US Marines. Part of the training traded is survival skills specific to the jungle environments Thailand provides, which includes eating of animals, dead or alive. Spiders, scorpions, snakes... one of the traditional hallmarks being the drinking of cobra blood as an alternative to being able to find clean water.

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 52d (5 replies)

Humans aren’t a definitive host for the worms, and they become destined to aimlessly wander through our meat sacks.

What a way with words!

Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 52d (4 replies)

What are they surviving on? It ain't like I got a pantry of snacks hidden in my groin.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 52d

tapeworms have no digestive system, so they absorb nutrients through thier integument, probably just living off of the body fluids. this is how intestinal tapeworms absorb food too.

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 52d (1 reply)

Good point, I didn't think about that. I get how they survive in the intestines but in the crotchal region what are they nibbling on?

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 52d

tapeworms being parasitic have no digestive system, they absorb nutrients through thier cuticles.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d

You should try it. Makes first dates really interesting.

ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 55 pts · 52d (14 replies)

Imagine shooting a load and it crawls back up your dick for some reason.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 61 pts · 52d (7 replies)

catbum@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 51d

comic featuring one really big sperm

Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 51d

What the fuck is wrong with you.

pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 52d (1 reply)

It would probably be as scary to be a girl having her first sex.

StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 51d

Or ever. Unprotected sex meaning you have to fish out the little bugger, though it'd make avoiding unwanted pregnancy easier. You'd just need a little net, maybe a bait trap.

massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 7 pts · 51d

You saw this and decided to share it.

zorblitz@programming.dev · 5 pts · 51d
Noja@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 52d

I recognise that name

ripcord@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 52d (3 replies)

No

ripcord@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 52d

:(

ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 52d

LMAO!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 52d

Why not?

Dolphinfreetuna@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 52d (1 reply)

How does it crawl back after i swallow

huppakee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d

Just watch baby

_thebrain_@sh.itjust.works · 42 pts · 52d (1 reply)

I'm sure the worm was equally surprised to find the doctors

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d

Oh, I'm glad I found you, doc, please fix this cat I've been living in, it's layout is all wrong, I think he's very sick! Please save him, he's very important to me!

WingedObsidian@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 52d

Fuck this so much

Photonic@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 52d (5 replies)

Well when I had elective surgery they found a live anaconda in my groin

….

I’ll show myself out…

otp@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 52d (4 replies)

Was it dead?

Dremor@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 52d (2 replies)

Hard to tell.

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d (1 reply)

I've got a bone to pick with that comment

Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d

Erection.

Photonic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d

Rigor mortis, stiff as a board

comador@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 52d (1 reply)

Quote: "Adding to the oddity, the man told the surgeons that this had actually happened to him before..."

Sounds like he drinks unboiled lake/river water. Gross.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 51d

Possibly. The article just mentions he ate a raw snake

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 52d

Nope. Nope nope nope.

Stern@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 52d (2 replies)

"Hey babe, I got ten inches in my pants..."

pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 52d

"Probably not the type that you'd like tho."

Wildone@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 50d

... his wife was categorically against this surgery, and requested they reverse it immediately. Put it back!

lavenderbreton@slrpnk.net · 15 pts · 52d (1 reply)

Good thing he got to worm his way out of this dilemma.

fieldswork@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 52d

I can’t tell if I’m more upset by the article or the fact that I laughed at this

fubarx@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 52d

Lifespan was 20-30 years. Least it could have done was pick up a case of beer.

eaterofclowns@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 52d (4 replies)

In worm lore they're piloting this dude like an eva and their bravest keep getting taken by malevolent gods

pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 52d (3 replies)

You must be watching the (very) wrong version of Ratatouille.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d (2 replies)

Yeah it's better in the original Korean

pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 51d (1 reply)

The what now?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d

Korean Ratatouille is a KDrama that involves the mystery of "Who left this giant green and purple turd on the table?"

(if you know what KDrama that's actually from I've been wondering for years)

Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 52d (2 replies)

Lovely. Encountered this post while eating and as I'm about to be full.

SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 12 pts · 52d (1 reply)

Let me guess, spaghetti?

Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d

Nan's old world recipe for groin worm marsala

thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 52d

Something something monkey paw

goldenquetzal@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d (1 reply)

raw snake meat??

slaacaa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d

HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 50d

There are too many threads in this thread I want some mindwipe for.........dammm this is one of the stories like that lady who had a plant growing in her wooha that makes you just go. Huh.

tremble5218@programming.dev · 3 pts · 52d (1 reply)

Sperm worm.

Skanky@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 50d

Sporm

Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d

Pfft. Normies

Heikki2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 47d

Ill bet it gets to 11" if he like you