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Garden snails around seattle will absolutely bite you (teeny tiny bite) and draw blood if you let them crawl around on your skin.

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Beware of strongyloids. Or apparently to maintain complexity of taxonomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiostrongyliasis

Or rat (snail/slug) lungworm

Any article with headings "Eye invasion" and "Lumbar puncture" is bound to be a good time.

A teenager in Australia died due to this after eating a dog slug as a dare.

I heard about that when it happened, but hadn’t realised it took nine years with a coma, paralysis, and seizures. It must’ve been horrifying for everyone involved, including the mates who dared him.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/teen-paralysed-even...

Touchy subject and Im not commenting on this specific case that I have no idea about, but for this class of cases (ruptured spine, paralysis, coma) MAID seems better than prolonging life, especially if there’s no hope for full healthy recovery.

Perhaps they considered it, laws pertaining to it seem to be quite recent in Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_and_assisted_suicid...

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