In 2012, a Japanese man with a fondness for chilled salmon came down with what physicians described as a “watery” bout of gastrointestinal distress. This was uncomfortable enough, but his illness took a turn for the shocking. The 40-year-old discovered that a meter-long “tape-shaped object” had “emerged from his anus,” according to a 2012 article in BMJ Case Reports. At that point the man decided to check himself into a hospital.
The cause of the man’s woes was the parasitic Japanese broad tapeworm, also known by its Latin name Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense. Read More...
Explore More A former New York City resident who famously exposed woke manias at his daughter’s elite Manhattan private school is running for Congress in his new home state of Florida.
Andrew Gutmann, 47, roiled the exclusive Brearley School with a scalding letter to parents in 2021, and will now seek office as a Republican in Palm Beach County’s District 22.
“I wrote that letter to my fellow parents at Brearley out of a sense of duty,” Gutmann said of his decision. Read More...