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flatworms anyone? - popolarbear - 06-20-2014
saw an article about flatworms in freshwater that bury in thru skin and survive in your liver. anyone know anyone that has had this in minnesota? i know for a fact we have flatworms i have seen them under the microscope, and have collected them. kinda interesting animals.i believe they require somewhat clean water. now im paranoid, as i know where ive been,basically everywhere. any thoughts?
RE: flatworms anyone? - popolarbear - 06-20-2014
here this is like what i have caught in our local waters. they have two eye spots.not all look like this
RE: flatworms anyone? - Hydro - 06-20-2014
there is also Schistosomatidae, trematode(causes swimmers itch) in most lakes with snails.
brain amoeba Naegleria fowleri
E. Coli
shigella
salmonella
campylobacter
Norovirus
Giardia
cryptosporidium
Cyanobacteria (Blue-green algae)
Acanthamoeba Keratitis. (lives under contacts)
Cyclospora cayetanensis
nature wants to devour you.
RE: flatworms anyone? - DetectorGuy - 06-20-2014
When I was a kid we used to hunt deer a lot. Every time we would shoot a deer, we would gut it right away, & put a stick in the chest cavity to let it cool down right away. We would also impale the heart and liver on the branch of a sapling to keep the critters from chewing on it during the day. One time at the end of the day we went to pull the deer out of the woods, and the liver had lots of liver flukes crawling out of it. To say the least, it was nasty. That was the last time we saved the liver. When you think about it, the liver is just a big filter, and now I just can't imagine eating the filter that has collected so many things that the animals body needed to filter out.
RE: flatworms anyone? - Terry - 06-21-2014
When I was a kid we used to hunt deer a lot. Every time we would shoot a deer, we would gut it right away, & put a stick in the chest cavity to let it cool down right away. We would also impale the heart and liver on the branch of a sapling to keep the critters from chewing on it during the day. One time at the end of the day we went to pull the deer out of the woods, and the liver had lots of liver flukes crawling out of it. To say the least, it was nasty. That was the last time we saved the liver. When you think about it, the liver is just a big filter, and now I just can't imagine eating the filter that has collected so many things that the animals body needed to filter out.
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Best to not eat organ meats, especially the liver, John's correct
really just a filter for toxins that collects them and then when you consume it, you add to your life's toxins. I remember reading about an Antarctica expedition that went south (sorry for that,,,and on the way out they ended up eating their dogs to survive, the only part of the dogs they could stand to consume raw was the liver. Way high in Vitamin A, (being one of the fat soluble vitamins, you can overdose on it) eventually caused the guys skin on their feet to come loose and they had to stop to pour the blood out of their boots and put them back on and keep going. Remember flukes and flucked,,,,,,,,, and Popo don't let paranoia, destroia.
RE: flatworms anyone? - popolarbear - 06-22-2014
here this is clearwater river out west on hwy55 close to clearwater lake, i was thinking about freediving it, but might not be safe, due to toxic algae bloom, farther down the river water is clear and fine enough to swim.
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swimmers itch, we have all had this parasite that buries its head into your meat then dies. thats what makes me wonder about the flukes.
brain amoeba i think both deaths in the metro came only from one lake out by square i think