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    Roach Coach gives immigrant brain worm.

    No comments on his status, but interesting he needs an "interpreter" after being here 20 freekin years.

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    Rare brain worms spread by unsanitary cooks


    There was a time when Renaldo Ramirez, of Houston, didn't like to cook.


    The 50-year-old ate most of his meals at mobile kitchens until he found out food contaminated with tapeworm eggs almost killed him.

    "He's scared now. He's scared of any food from outside," Ramirez said through his sister who interpreted for him.

    Ramirez is a tile worker who immigrated to the U.S. from El Salvador 20 years ago.

    "It was a mild headache, but it wouldn't go away," he said. "It was just there and it wouldn't go away with Tylenol."

    Doctors at a clinic gave him medicine for high blood pressure. A few days later he passed out and didn't wake up for eight days.

    Dr. Aaron Mohanty found a cyst of tapeworm larvae living in Ramirez's brain. If it hadn't been found, the doctor said, Ramirez could have been dead within hours from the disease called cysticercosis. The disease is usually found in rural parts of developing countries with poor hygiene habits. However, Ramirez was the fourth patient Mohanty treated within a few months.

    "The cycle starts with a human that's infected with the tapeworm," said Dr. Luis Ostrosky, of the UT Houston Medical Center.

    The tapeworm eggs are spread by a human host who doesn't practice good hygiene after using the restroom. An unsuspecting victim then eats the contaminated food, Ostrosky said.

    "These eggs hatch in the intestine and go through the gut-wall and into the circulation where they get stuck somewhere," Ostrosky said.

    Ramirez's cyst was removed through a small incision. During his recovery Ramirez learned to cook and now prepares his own food.

    There have been cases of cysticercosis in South Texas, San Antonio's Metro Health District said, but it is not a major outbreak.

    The best way to avoid the disease, doctors say, is to wash your hands, cook meats thoroughly, especially pork, and to wash fruits and vegetables.

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    "No comments on his status, but interesting he needs an "interpreter" after being here 20 freekin years."

    Ditto TC! The article doesn't mention how much his treatment cost the taxpayers.

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    Oh.....so gross!!!!!

    My husband has been buying occassional meals from one of those at his work, and I told him to stop! This is the last thing we need in our household, another health problem for the bread winner.

    I am glad with all the news, that we have been so broke and unable to eat out at all.
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    He's been hanging around since the last amnesty hoping for another one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AmericanElizabeth
    Oh.....so gross!!!!!

    My husband has been buying occassional meals from one of those at his work, and I told him to stop! This is the last thing we need in our household, another health problem for the bread winner.
    Yeah, he better not get sick because he won't get ANY HELP from our government. Jorge and Rick would let your husband die and rot and step over his corpse to usher in more illegals.
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    Mobile kitchens? You mean those silver loncherias that have moved into my old neighborhood?
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    That is so stinkn gross.
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    now that he has learned to cook he can work in the food industry
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    Roach Coach gives immigrant brain worm.

    Today I went to A mc Donald for a cup of coffee and a muffin found out that only one person spoke English did I feel safe - - - no.

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    I went to a new McDonalds that was just built. You can see the message board through the drive through. Half in English and half in Spanish!!

    What does this signal? Do I have to ask?
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