A Man Ate Pork Tacos From An Illegal Food Truck. This Is What Happened To His Brain. 

taco good 🌮

As a single person living alone, I can't afford to eat gas station sushi or from sketchy food trucks. If I pass out for a while in the bathroom, that's it for me. Gotta be careful.

I love the way moustache truck man gives him an evil look after giving him the taco like he's deliberately making people seriously ill 😂. He is in league with the tapeworms. 😈

"Oh, you have a fever? Probably allergies." Bro. Revoke his medical license fr.

Getting and having a parasite inside you is definitely one of the most terrifying medical problems i can think of 😨😨

I like how, after feeling weird ever since he ate there, and hearing about the weird rumors and MULTIPLE other coworkers feeling weird after eating there... He decided he should go to that truck again.

This kind of story makes me grateful for food safety regulations. I feel like that's something we take for granted nowadays

The fact that he ate the taco truck again my reaction was “then that guy was an idiot” it makes sense on why they have to have a license and inspection to sell food in New York City alone

I love how quick doctors are to say it's allergies. I went to urgent care cuz my eyes had swollen shut. I had to hold my eye open to drive just for the doctor at Urgent care to tell me that it was allergies. I was experiencing anaphylaxis. It just hadn't spread to my throat yet. Still to this day no idea what caused it. Don't know if it was something I ate or if it's just something I'm allergic to in the air (betting the later), but it caused a severe allergic reaction and all they did was label It as allergies and told me, "you're good to go, just take allergy meds" as if I hadnt taken multiple different types and none of them worked so thats why i went to urgent care, They never even gave me anything for my allergies so they didn't even give me anything to possibly treat what was causing it. And I told them that I can't even go to work or classes and I am in college. I couldn't see at all. Unless i physically opened my eye with my fingers and it was extremely painful. Before anybody asks it was not pink eye and it was not an eye infection because they gave me nothing and it eventually just went away as winter came. And it wasn't just my eyes that were swollen shut my nose swelled up. My cheeks had swollen up and parts of my forehead were swelling up as well. My eyes were incredibly itchy along with the rest of my skin on my face and I literally could not sleep. It was getting really hard to eat food because it was hurting to open and close my mouth. My eyes were swollen shut for several weeks. Once the swelling started to go down I developed permanent wrinkles from how poofy my face had gotten and having nothing to get the swelling to go down. I looked like a 20 year old that had done meth a couple times with how much i aged based on before and after photos. Funny part is I was going to school to become a doctor. Because of all these experiences I've had with doctors, I decided not even going to touch the medical field for career. Instead I double majored and now I'm going with environmental engineering. Less gaslighting. Another sidebar I went to an allergist about a year after because that's how long it took for my insurance to find me one and the allergist was baffled that they didn't stick me with an EpiPen at the urgent care because if I had gone home and ☠️ it would have been their negligence. I don't even know how many kinds of allergy meds I took or the sheer amount of each one I took. Eventually after dosing myself up so much with the allergy meds, the itching eventually stopped, but the swelling stayed until winter.

Eating pork tacos from an illegal foodtduck is tight. Making a full recovery from brain shut down is super easy, barely an inconvenience… he thought.

I'm a doctor from Thailand, one of the countries with the endemic disease. The moment I see the video name I immediately know what it is.But If you live in a first world country, it's not hard for a general physician to not think of it as a first diagnosis. The disease itself can manifest in many forms as the video said. If any of you would travel to a part of the world where cysticercosis is still a problem, I would recommend you to eat from a clean restaurant and fully cooked meat.

My kitten had a similar story of sorts. She started to develop seizures not long after I adopted her and where she also has cerebellar hypoplasia it was suspected that they were an unfortunate side effect so she began treatment of phenobarbital which eventually included gabapentin as they were still happening. She was not too thrilled about it especially since it didn't seem to really help. Then, another late night where I had to bring her in to emerge (and gently hitting a deer along the way), the vet asked what her history was prior to being adopted at which point I said she and her brothers were outdoor strays but is now strictly indoors. Once the seizures subsided not long after being directly injected with phenobarb, she grabbed a box of Profender and applied the topical solution while explaining that this is something not often seen which is why it was likely misdiagnosed and how a parasitic tapeworm infection of the brain is possible under certain circumstances. One of the two active ingredients in Profender is praziquantel. Spent about $1200 in total in emerge visits and medication to find out a $15 injection was all she needed. Worth every cent and the deer was okay.

I have a degree in parasitology and as soon as I read the title I knew exactly where this is going. However, I'd like to say that the source of the cysts didn't have to be the ass-scratching cook... I find it much more probable that it was an auto-infection from the patient's own feces. This is how most cases of cysticercosis happen - that's why it is always dangerous to catch T. solium, even though the taeniosis (having the adult worm in your gut) itself has mild symptoms. One doesn't have to be some disgusting pig (no pun intended) to get their hands, and subsequently food, contaminated by their own feces. We come to contact with it every day after all.

Not only is Moustache Guy running an illegal food truck, he's also running an unlicensed medical practice!

how this man has a full job as a doctor and makes stellar medical videos as a hobby is mind boggling. especially since these videos have really stepped up since the beginning.

He had every opportunity to kick his ass but decided to order more tacos🤦😂🤣🌮

This happened to my son's father. He ate street tacos in Mexico and had Neurocystercercosis which is the tapeworms in his brain. He almost died and has a shunt in his brain with fluid on his brain for the rest of his life.

Man, I was getting worried with all the brain cysts. Good to know he made a full recovery.

The guy playing the food truck operator deserves a raise

Was on a cruise ship to Mexican Riviera. Docked and disembarked to a vendor frying tacos in a 55 gallon drum for 10 cents a piece. These guys just ate all the tacos they could get their hands on. Later on the ship they got food poisoning and were quarantined for the rest of cruise. This was our first port so these guys spent 8 of 10 days locked in a tiny cabin fighting for facilities.

I got as sick as a dog when I went wjth a friend to lunch at Crab Louie in N. Chesterfield, VA. My esophogus and stomach were messed up for months. I passed by their location one day and discovered that they had gone out of business. I was so glad that they could not seriously harm anyone else.

My ex husband was a pathologist. He liked to entertain me, especially at mealtimes, by recounting some of his most interesting autopsies. On one occasion, a group of friends went hunting, killed a wild pig, roasted it, but ate the meat rare, since it was getting late and they were hungry. Several of them died.

In 2001 I was victim of this same case while living abroad after eating undercooked pork infected with this parasite 6 months prior to the event. I experienced all symptoms described in the video. I experienced seizures which took me to the emergency room and recovered hours later; subsequently, later that night I experienced further seizures, which landed me in a coma for about nine months. This event had life-changing consequences in my life as I’ve developed multiple neurological issues that has affected me ever since, and had to learn how to live with. Thank you for bringing awareness to this, and though it is not common in the United States for this to happen, it is something that happens often and third world countries and other developing nations.

My daughter, who was always vegetarian, at a chicken taco off a food truck. She got a parasite which lead to ulcer active colitis and now she has to have infusions ever few months. The doctors said she needs to do these infusions for the rest of her life.

That's funny the taco truck owner became his doctor 😂😂😆 Oh shit. I'm in tears. Love the super Nintendo music playing in the background while talking about him getting sick. Noice

I really appreciate the actors, settings, and camera work that makes this story feel more real. Chubbyemu's second channel Big Emus really widened my perspective for how much work went into these videos.

I love that you made sure multiple times to inform your viewers that this was not a "Food Truck" problem, but an *Illegal, Unregulated Food* problem, and that in many cases, food trucks are in fact MORE regulated. EDIT: BOY, am I getting a lot of weird replies here lol

The timer on the sponsored segment is 100/10 thank you if I ever have enough money to get factor I will come right back here and buy it from you for that

really like how you broke down the medical terms so we could better understand! subscribed, you are a great narrator!

My little cousin had the exact same thing when he was a child. Nearly died, managed to somehow survive with some vision loss. He'll be visually impaired for life, but man, the whole time he was in the hospital, the entire family was panicking. He was only around 7 or 8 years old, and nobody knew what to do or how/where he got it. By the time I heard about it myself, he had collapsed and was brought over from the countryside to the city where I live. Thank you for discussing cysticercosis! Not many people know about it until it's too late.

I laughed so hard when I saw Food Truck Guy was also the doctor, well played

Smooth transition to your sponsors ad! This video makes me never want to eat out ever again, and just cook my own meals forever...except Angie Burger, of course!

4:29 the story: extremely intense and a terrifying situation The music: 😄😄😁😁😁🤪🤪🤩🤩🤩🤩😂😂😂🥹🫶🫶❤️😡

I love how every time you described the guy's bowel movements, you added a shot of a can of tunafish, because i really needed help imagining poop with "chunks of undigested tuna meat" in it. Thank you.

Making the Physician also the food truck owner was a stroke of economic and comedic genius

As a german, videos like these make me appreciate our strict meat standards even more. Gotta get a myself a Mettbrötchen today (bread roll with raw pork and onions).

Excellent description of what could happen. Wow. Thank you for the PSA

Kudos to the mustache man for completing his M.D and becoming a doctor in just a few months

I appreciate the steps you take to ensure your videos aren't simply fear-mongering, but rather informing us of specific risks.

What an exquisite detail, that the food truck man and the doctor are the same person.

Just going on record to say that the main actor acts sick better than most Hollywood actors do. Props to you actor. I was fully convinced

Out of luck, I found my self in a food safety course for work in a restaurant... Fortunately the course was reasonably short and it taught me a lifetime of how to handle food safely, respect temperature and food prep area and most of all... ALL THE POTENTIAL ILLNESSES!!! It's a course that should be taught in High School. It's just as important as health or science class!!!

When your sketchy food truck vendor is also your doctor, you know you're bang in trouble.

I’m literally only 0:53 into the video and I already feel bad for the guy, all he wanted was a yummy taco. ☹️

I really love when I see people leave a restroom without washing and thinking about all the merchandise / parts of the business they are fondling.

That's incredible that you can have that much happening inside your brain and still make a full recovery with just the right medicine and no surgery needed. Great work from the doctors!

As a RN n former ER\trauma 1 nurse i found this fascinating. Quick story..my kids dad grew up really poor in the mountains of puerto rico ..they had no running water for years. They would boil it from the rivers n had outhouses etc. He got cancer in 2016 had chemo n eventually went into remission. Almost 1yr to the day of completing chemo he had a seizure out of no where. They originally thought the cancer had returned n went to the brain but after tests n a brain biopsy they discovered toxoplasmosis. They said he prob gotten it as a child from the dirty water, undercooked meat or contact with feces from the outhouses etc. But bc he had a healthy immune system it was dormant n he was asymptomatic. However since the chemo had lowered his immune response it attacked. He was on antibiotics n antiparasitics n anti seizure meds for awhile n eventually made a full recovery!

the fact that the guy who made the tacos was also the physician is awesome

Unrelated from the serious nature of this video but I find the acting in these re-enactments so good, and sometimes even funny 😂

"It appeared that he made a full recovery" Yes!!! That's great! I absolutely expected to hear "upon autopsy". So glad he's okay!

No matter how serious the situation, I always end up smiling when he says "presenting to the emergency room"

These vids always lead me to the conclusion that if you want to definitively find if there’s anything very wrong with you you should get an MRI lmao

I don't understand why you don't have more subscribers, you're content has great production value and is very informative to people with or without a medical background! Thank you for making videos :)

The pain of this experience is nothing compared to the pain of knowing this man is willingly walking around with those floating sideburns.

This may be one of the most horrifying Chubbyemu videos yet. The fact that the effects went on for MONTHS. Even the thought of parasites makes me cringe, and this one can cross into the brain... Amazing that the patient made a full recovery. Powerful medication

My high school science teacher once told me about this tapeworm. I don't remember the conversation that prompted it, since I don't think it was relevant to any of the classes she taught (it was a small school, she covered pretty much all science classes) but I only remember thinking how gross its method of propagation was. While I've never dealt with this myself, I do have an experience eating contaminated meat from an unhygienic place. I once bought suya (grilled meats) from a place that I had gone to several times before, but the smell coming from this place on this particular day was notably awful. I chose to ignore it, and probably made a mental note to find a different suya spot afterwards, but it would've been smarter of me to have not eaten there. Later I came down with typhoid, and I also had malaria at the same time to boot. I had the WORST nightmares of my life, I don't think people understand the meaning of the term "fever dream" until you've had one. I remember being so worn down and exhausted that all I could do was lay on the floor. For the record, at some point that suya spot vanished into thin air.

This is why pork was forbidden in the bible back in the day. Can you imagine how difficult it was to properly cook pork back then.

I've worked in a food truck for 3 years, and the sanitation standards are ridiculously high. Beyond most fast food or even local restaurant standards. Health departments love to target us and fine us tons if we have any violations.

i was a south american kid in the 90s/00s, i hear "medium rare pork" and i get a shiver down my spine. idk if kids are still taught the same way, but i had the fear of tenias instilled in me at a very young age. it's one of the top gruesome experiences to study the parasites in school, combined with the traditional sti horror show class everyone got in school and tetanus.

6:41 new fear unlocked big worm in toilet💀💀💀

we need this kind of channel and he is genius of delivering any health informations that we never thought we need before,bless him and his channel🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍

Dang! I once went with my boss to buy supplies for the cafe and we found a lady parked in her driveway next to her house selling tamales from her car. They were so good! Glad we’re still alive!

As soon as I read pork and brain I knew exactly what happened. These kinds of diseases are endemic here so we learn all about parasites in school, including both types of tapeworm, and the diseases they cause. It was also in school that I learned about the ever so lovely named oral-fecal route. Anyways, I'm surprised the guy made a full recovery because my teachers assured us that tapeworms in the brain are a one way street. Maybe they just wanted to make sure we washed our hands well...

Good to know. Thank you for informing. P.S. This gives me another anxiety.😬 I don’t eat pork anyway… but still a thought that I can get infected because of someone’s poor hygiene is unsettling.

Thank you for making educational videos! 😁

My Dad won’t eat pork unless it is literally burnt to a crisp! Now I know why, Thank You Emu!

The truck driver had to 1) buy infected meat 2) undercook it 3) contaminate it with his own infection. That's a lot of bad luck for the buying guy.

i screamed "TAPEWORM" as soon as i heard about rectangles

That was a smooth transition to Factor! New sub 👍

2:57 THE DOCTOR BEING THE SAME ACTOR AS THE FOOD TRUCK GUY KILLED ME LMAO

cant blame the taco truck guy for doctoring on the side, food trucks are a tough business that takes lots of time and effort

Pork? LOVETT: It's priest. Have a little priest. TODD: Is it really good? LOVETT: Sir, it's too good, at least! Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh, So it's pretty fresh. TODD: Awful lot of fat. LOVETT: Only where it sat. TODD: Haven't you got poet, or something like that? LOVETT: No, y'see, the trouble with poet is 'Ow do you know it's deceased? Try the priest!🎵

Cats and dogs can also get tapeworm infections. I had a cat that got them. This is also why you should always wash your hands after dealing with the cat litter box.

I was super impressed with the food trucks who came to our small town back in the COVID days. I've never seen such clean workspaces, but their glove usage must have been through the roof, lol. Seeing how dedicated they were to cleanliness made a lot of loyal little food gremlins out of us town folk, though.

This is actually something an old Biology teacher of mine's uncle had. If she's still alive she'd be in her ate 70s to early 80s rn. Said uncle used to cook pork chops and stuff by just cooking it on one side in a pan for 2 minutes and then flip it over and do the other for 2. He was also a raging alcoholic (important). So one day he goes to a hospital and complains to about feeling sick and the docs immediately notice he's got jaundice. They do a blood test and question his family and go okay, he'd an alcoholic let's tone down the alcohol and then that'll improve his liver function. The uncle loses consciousness 3 days later and then dies shortly thereafter. Turns out his brain was full of worms and the constant abuse of alcohol was probably affecting the worms too and helped keep him alive

I heard about a couple in Adelaide who got these tapeworm lesions in their brains after a holiday in Bali. They were careful not to eat pork but they ate other food in cafés that sold pork. Apparently the dishes were not washed thoroughly and tapeworm eggs stuck to the plates and went into their stomachs. Bali has a minority of Muslims and their food outlets never handle pork so that's one way to be safe there. They also have vegetarian and vegan restaurants.

I screamed when I saw the taco truck guy was played by the same actor as the first doctor. Made me think of an elaborate plot against CD omg😂

A friend of my dad had a tapeworm in his brain. He ate pork and that is how he contracted the parasite. He got surgery but he wasn't the same person as he was before.

Brain parasites are really the stuff of nightmares, even if they 'only' end up as cysts. Sometimes it goes far worse than that. Pretty amazing that the case in this video ended up making a full recovery.

Sounds like a nightmare. Also sounds very much like what happened to a woman in Northern Virginia, and underwent a surgery at Fairfax Hospital, to remove a worm, that showed in either MRI or CT scan. She was only around 26, and was in pretty bad shape by this time, and had been in the US since childhood, but did remember traveling to Colombia sometime as a child. I think it was when she was 5 or 12.

"his wife sees him on the ground shaking with his eyes rolling to the back of his head." the gameboy music in the back: :]

Your level of responsibility, to not only tell a garrowing medical story that resulted from a sketchy food truck, but on multiple occasions to reinforce that foodtrucks are actually heavily insoected so as not to impact peoples potential livelyhoods, is incredible. Many other youtubers would just bang out the story for views and not think about that at all. Seriously love your work, learn a lot from these.

Even when my favourite actor you use isn’t the victim, he’s out here giving taco evils. Brings such fun energy 😂 brilliant as always.

He went back for seconds 🤣🤦🏽‍♂️

Love the video! Great story telling! Side note, in the ad plug you said "I spend a couple hundred dollars on my FAMILY'S groceries." What?! lol. Teach me thy ways! 😆

This one really got me squeamish. Idk if it was the undercooked pork idea, the fact he ate poo particles AND tape worm eggs, the brain cysts, the horrific tape worm mouth an hooks but this was all freaky

Great video! Very educational and interesting. Thank you very much!

this scared the soul out of me for some reason. good vid.

"the mustached man didn't seem like he was from around town" the physician's disguise was perfect

I think we all must admit truckman's cooking skills. His food was so delicious that he managed to attract clients in spite of severe anti sanitaria in his truck))

I don’t think I’ll ever eat pork from a restaurant ever again

10:00 that’s terrifying

The pork tapeworm is such a fascinating parasite. Mostly because it can use humans both as a definitive and intermediate host at the same time.

I'm an RN. In school we looked at slides of brain tissue from a woman who had gotten tape worm bladders in her brain from a dog licking her mouth. That woman and those slides immediately came to mind when this MD started describing CD's symptoms. This is a very well made video. Thank you!

8:25 its really cool when you advertising delivery service in the video about a man who got parasites by an tacos

"Woah man why are you so sick?" "I ate an illegal substance" "Drugs?" "No, some dude was selling illegal pork tacos in a truck"

Seeing the guy who passed away from eating the 5 day old pasta gave me so much nostalgic trauma, this man truly has scarred me in a good way

And then people wonder why I am so darn serious about food safety and sanitation even when I was just working simple jobs. I went to culinary school, I learned the importance of safety and sanitation guidelines, and swore to uphold the Culinarian's Code. People made fun of me for reciting it on the job, but I never had a customer come in sick from our food. I'm disabled and retired now, but I still practice it and still tell people about it all the time.

Am i the only one that noticed the mustached man as the physician?

Today we have a three for Thursday special: 1) pinky dipped Pico de Gallo 2) ass scratched carne ass-ada 3) fecal matter fish tacos with tapeworm tilapia