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Subject:	Re: don't eat those slugs
From:	David Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:18:04 -0400
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If this is the same incident, the NY Times is a bit slow

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3204299.stm

It seems unlikely that the fellow eating them had sufficient
malacological knowledge to identify the slugs, and by the time the
symptoms appeared, there probably wasn't much left of the slugs.

However, it's also true that journalists rarely know much about slugs, either.


--
Dr. David Campbell
Collections Assistant
The Paleontological Research Institution
1259 Trumansburg Road
Ithaca NY 14850

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