We should all be wary of what we put into our bodies. If you think that something is okay to eat just because someone is selling it to you or because other people are eating it, remember that there's the possibility of a rare case in which things go terribly wrong. Those cases are liable to make global news. The good news is that no one actually died in these five medical stories, although all the patients most likely thought about it.
I almost titled this post the Five Most Disgusting Medical Stories of 2025 (That Are Fit to Print), but thought that might scare you away from reading it. Hey, I read it while eating, so it isn't that disgusting, but the cases are frightening while still fascinating us. What they have in common is that they resulted from eating something. Find out what that was for each case and how it wrecked someone's body at Ars Technica.
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