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· Bryan Ke
Chinese Woman’s ‘Itchy Eyes’ Turns Out to Be 100 Parasites Living in Her Eyelashes
Doctors from Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei Province, were shocked after they discovered more than 100 eyelash mites living in the eyelids of a woman who went to the hospital to get her “itchy eyes” checked out. According to the woman, who is only identified as Ms. Xu, she had…
· Ryan General
Study: Jungle Parasites From the Vietnam War May Be Slowly Killing U.S. Veterans
Some United States veterans who served in Vietnam in the late 1960s may have been infected by a slow-killing parasite that only shows its symptoms decades after its ingestion, a new study revealed. Based on the research recently commissioned by the U.S. Department of Veterans…
· Carl Samson
Japan Has Millions of Middle-Aged ‘Parasite Singles’ Still Living With Their Parents
Japan had more than four million middle-aged “parasite singles” who lived with their elderly parents in 2016, according to new research data. That’s around 4.5 million unmarried citizens aged 35 to 54 who were either unemployed or underemployed, the country’s Statistical…
· Bryan Ke
Chinese Mother Feeds Live Tadpoles to Her Son Thinking It is Healthy – Science Greatly Disagrees
A video circulating on Chinese social media shows a mother feeding her young son live tadpoles with the belief that it will keep him healthy and fit. However, these tadpoles could be infected with parasites that could make someone incredibly ill if consumed raw, according to…
· Ryan General
Adult Children Who Still Live at Home Make Their Parents’ Lives Miserable, Study Finds
Having adult children live with their parents is a common phenomenon in Asian cultures, even when living abroad. But while this has worked fairly well for many of the tightly-knit Asian families, the same cannot be said to European families, according to a new study which looked…
· Carl Samson
Doctors Extract 9-Foot Tapeworm From Singaporean Man’s Rectum
A nine-foot tapeworm emerged from the rectum of a man in Singapore and had to be folded 18 times so that it would fit into a picture. The man, who felt no symptoms, was admitted at Singapore General Hospital for the removal.
· Carl Samson
5-Foot Tapeworm ‘Wiggles Out’ of Man’s Butt After Eating Sushi in California
A Fresno, California man who walked into a hospital complaining of bloody diarrhea discovered that he had been hosting a 5-foot Japanese salmon tapeworm. In the Jan. 8 episode of medical podcast “This Won’t Hurt A Bit,” Dr. Kenny Banh recalled how the man asked to be tested for…
· Carl Samson
Elderly Japanese People are Dying Alone and Left Rotting for Weeks
Japanese people have been dying alone and rotting for weeks in their homes, a sad trend that has now been the fate of thousands. Kodokushi, or “dying alone,” is a gripping problem in Japan.
· Heather Johnson Yu
North Korean Soldier Who Escaped to South Korea Already Loves K-Pop and American TV Shows
The United Nations has released video footage of a North Korean defector fleeing the country, his fellow soldiers shooting him in hot pursuit. The video, which is broken up into five sections, begins at 3:11 p.m. local time on November 13 with the defector driving a military…
· Ryan General
Doctors Find Parasitic Worms All Over North Korean Soldier’s Body After Daring Escape
Doctors reportedly found an “enormous number of parasites” inside the stomach of the North Korean defector who made global headlines for his daring escape to the South via the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) last week. While the soldier made it across the border on foot after ditching…
· Bryan Ke
Scientists Warn That ‘Super Malaria’ Spreading Through Southeast Asia Could Threaten the World
A new form of malaria that is resistant to today’s standard treatment, currently being referred to as “Super Malaria,” has broken out in Southern Vietnam. According to BBC, scientists are warning the public that the rapid spread of “Super Malaria” in Southeast Asia could pose a…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Hawaii Representative Beth Fukumoto Receives Racist Hate Mail From Trump Supporter
Member of the Hawaii House of Representatives Beth Fukumoto (D) received a racist letter from someone purporting to be from “La, Calif”. The letter included sarcastic sympathy for Japanese-Americans forced into internment camps and sexist name-calling, aimed at the…
· Carl Samson
Japan is Giving Permanent Residency to Foreigners Working in the Anime Industry
Foreigners working in anime-related fields for at least one year in Japan can soon get permanent residency rights, the country’s Immigration Bureau has announced. The new rule, which takes effect in 2018, follows changes in the bureau’s “points-based preferential immigration…
· Carl Samson
Japan Has an Insanely Low Jobless Rate, But the Country is Still Doomed
Japan has been making great strides in decreasing unemployment rates recently, but experts are warning of something terrible happening on the flip side. According to government data released this week, the country’s jobless rate was at 2.8% in April for the third consecutive…
· Carl Samson
Doctors Issue New Warning That Will Horrify Sushi Lovers
Physicians are now airing their concern over the dangers of consuming raw seafood, especially fish, which happens to be the main ingredient in sushi. In an article published on BMJ Case Reports last week, doctors cited the case of a 32-year-old Portuguese man who suffered severe…
· Khier Casino
Tila Tequila is Officially Out of Her Damn Mind
TV personality Tila “Tequila” Nguyen recently posted a 23-minute long YouTube video explaining a contract she signed that apparently makes her God. “Whether it’s Jesus, Allah … Yeshwah or whatever …” the Singapore-born, Houston-raised Nguyen began, “My dumbass self, I signed…
· Ryan General
Scientists Discover Japanese Tapeworms in U.S. Salmon
While it has been long believed that the parasitic tapeworm that can invade the human digestive tract is only infecting fish found in Asia, a new study has discovered its existence in fish caught in Alaska. The horrific tapeworm, which includes Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense,…
· Carl Samson
Seven Girls Poisoned After Eating at a Chinese Restaurant in India
What had been a joyful celebration turned disastrous when seven Indian girls found themselves hospitalized after eating at a Chinese restaurant. The girls, all teenagers, fell sick after consuming Chinese food at a restaurant in Nirmal Nagar, Khar, a suburb of Mumbai. They were…
· Laura Dang
Science Says Sleeping With A Chicken Wards Off Mosquitoes
Sleeping next to a live chicken can keep mosquitoes from sucking the life out of you. Scientists have discovered that mosquitoes steer clear of areas where they detect odor emitted by fowl such as chickens. It’s a natural mosquito repellant that has the potential to help with…
· Laura Dang
I Spent the Day With the World’s Hottest Animal Doctor — This is What Happened
Many may know Dr. Evan Antin as the veterinarian dubbed “Sexiest Beast Charmer” by People, but his clients know him as the caring doctor who performs regular check-ups on their beloved pets. Since the beginning of this year, Dr. Antin has gone from having just 11,000 to 274,000…
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