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"Brain Parasites in Meat"
Next up? Lamb Chops. The prevalence of the parasite toxoplasma in lambs destined for human consumption in the U.S.A.
USDA researchers obtained the hearts of 383 lambs on the day of killing. So, for those of you who think the USDA doesn't have a heart - wrong. They got 383.
What do you think they found? Greater than 50% infested, or less than 50%?
The good news is, it was less than half. Only about one in six U.S. lambs are actively infected.
The bad news is that 10% of Americans are currently infected with this brain parasite.
That means, odds are we all know people who have a battle going on inside their skulls between their immune system and these toxoplasma brain parasites,
which have been linked to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, Parkinson's, but most peoples' immune systems are able to keep them at bay.
Should our immune systems start to seriously slip, though, they can infect our eyeballs.
Here's a close-up of the back of someone's infected eye.
This is what it looks like in the brain of an adult,
and this is what these parasites can do to the brains of our children.
No one, but particularly pregnant women, should eat undercooked meat.