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POPSFive Foods You Shouldn't Eat Raw 4. Beef and pork: Avoiding raw meat is a no-brainer, until you see it on the menu with an appetizing name like tartare or carpaccio. There’s a long list of diseases you could get from raw meat, so I’ll mention only one: neurocysticercosis, a parasite from undercooked pork that crawls from your intestine up to your brain, where it can live for years and cause seizures. …and finally, no “Everybody Panic!” list is complete without at least one way you might inadvertently kill your child: 5. Honey: Honey contains bacterial spores that cause botulism, a disease that’s usually fatal if untreated. While adults and children have high stomach acid levels that kill the spores in honey, infants do not. Children less than a year old should not eat honey.
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POPSWhat Is Giardia? Giardia infection is an intestinal infection marked by abdominal cramps, bloating, nausea and watery diarrhea. Giardia infection is caused by a parasite that is found worldwide, especially in areas with poor sanitation and unsafe water.
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POPS400-Yard Dash
Feces can’t normally remain intact in the desert for hundreds of years. But the dead eggs of intestinal parasites can—so long as they are buried and thereby protected from sunlight and wind. Joe E. Zias, a paleopathologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, led a team including James Tabor, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, that sampled the soil in and around Qumran. In only one area did they discover eggs from human intestinal parasites. As predicted, the site was about 400 yards northwest of the village (a nine-minute uphill hike, Zias determined) and hidden from view behind bluffs. Zias believes that the sect members, their mission accomplished, immersed themselves in a bath on their walk back down to the settlement. That sounds like a healthy practice, but the bathwater was anything but fresh: Qumran relied for water on runoff collected during a brief annual rainy season. Skeletal remains indicate a population
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