Sydney-native Sam Ballard was just 20-years-old in 2010 when a slug crawled across a table he was sitting at with a group of his friends. On a dare,Sam agreed to eat the critter. But just days later, things took a nasty turn.
As the Washington Post reports, or Sam had contracted a rat lungworm,a parasite which normally lives in rodents, but can be passed on to snails and slugs when they eat rodent feces. Eating infected slugs and snails can result in transmission to humans. While most humans are lucky in that they don’t suffer major side effects, or in Sam’s case the parasite infested his brain,resulting in a more than year-long coma, paralysis, and,ultimately, his death.final week, or at the age of 29 and more than eight years after innocently agreeing to what should contain been no more than a silly dare,Sam passed away.
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Source: inquisitr.com