We left BsAs after being there nearly 6 years. I'm posting as a warning to those who are left behind. My daughter want the only Argentine we brought back home.
I apparently have a beastly taenia solium (pork tapeworm) currently living in my intestines which I ingested no doubt from a delicious Sunday choripan in Parque Centenario or La Costanera. It turns out that that I, and those I live with or have had sexual contact with, are also at a huge risk for a delightful disease known as cysticerosis, which is contracted when the carrier (that's me!) unknowingly emits microscopic eggs that then reinvade their host and spread cysts throughout the body, generally in the brain, organs and muscle tissue, but also the eyes. When these living larval cysts grow old and die a few years, their immune masking capabilities wear off which often causes epilepsy, paralysis, death and a whole other list of nastiness. Al this despite taking normal hygienic measures.
Yippie! Thanks for another one Argentina! Good thing I don't have insurance.
This kind of thing is almost unheard of in The States, but is apparently pretty frequent where you're probably reading this. One trip to the provincia should convince anyone that pigs and humans living together in their own waste isn't so far fetched.
The food you are eating is not safe. At the very least a beef tapeworm doesn't carry the risk of cysticerosis. The worst you'll get is a scene from Alien. The pork on the other hand is potentially lethal. I know what Travolta said in Pulp Fiction, but make your last choripan your last choripan if it isn't cooked to char. I wish I would have known just how dangerous it was.
Sleep tight.
I apparently have a beastly taenia solium (pork tapeworm) currently living in my intestines which I ingested no doubt from a delicious Sunday choripan in Parque Centenario or La Costanera. It turns out that that I, and those I live with or have had sexual contact with, are also at a huge risk for a delightful disease known as cysticerosis, which is contracted when the carrier (that's me!) unknowingly emits microscopic eggs that then reinvade their host and spread cysts throughout the body, generally in the brain, organs and muscle tissue, but also the eyes. When these living larval cysts grow old and die a few years, their immune masking capabilities wear off which often causes epilepsy, paralysis, death and a whole other list of nastiness. Al this despite taking normal hygienic measures.
Yippie! Thanks for another one Argentina! Good thing I don't have insurance.
This kind of thing is almost unheard of in The States, but is apparently pretty frequent where you're probably reading this. One trip to the provincia should convince anyone that pigs and humans living together in their own waste isn't so far fetched.
The food you are eating is not safe. At the very least a beef tapeworm doesn't carry the risk of cysticerosis. The worst you'll get is a scene from Alien. The pork on the other hand is potentially lethal. I know what Travolta said in Pulp Fiction, but make your last choripan your last choripan if it isn't cooked to char. I wish I would have known just how dangerous it was.
Sleep tight.