Reddit Discusses: How Did Rugby Player Sam Ballard Die Of A Slug Follow By Rat Lungworm Disease

Reddit now is crowded with discussing the death cause of then-Australian Rugby player Sam Ballard. He died on November 2, 2018, at the early age of 28.

The former player swallowed a slug at a party in Sydney in 2010 as a dare by friends and was taken to hospital immediately after spelled of dizziness and vomiting.

As a result, he was discovered to have rat lungworm, a parasite often found in rats but occasionally also in snails and slugs.

He then contracted eosinophilic meningoencephalitis and went into a coma for 420 days. Luckily he woke up after a long time but unfortunately, he needed to be diagnosed with a serious brain injury. Further complications led him to paralyzed and finally said goodbye to the world.

Reddit users are being aggressive about Sam’s family as they blamed doctors for not fixing him. People are commenting about the incident and marking it as a horror death and suggesting not to do such silly things as a part of dare games.

Sam Ballard was a famous Australian rugby player who was born in 1990 to his mother Katie Ballard. In the same city as his family, he grew up. He was of white ethnicity and has Australian nationality.

He was paralyzed after he swallowed a slug at a party as a dare in 2010 for which his mother didn’t blame his friends.

Sam Ballard hasn’t been indexed on Wikipedia yet but here we write what we explored about him.

The ardent player was 19 years old at the time he played the dare, which carried the roundworm parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis, commonly known as the rat lungworm.

These parasites commonly infect rats as adults, but early in their life cycle, they may be carried by slugs and snails that consume rat feces. They can also infect people who eat undercooked, infected snails or slugs.

According to primalinformation.com, the parasite caused a serious brain infection in Ballard’s case due to which he fell into a coma for 420 days. Moreover, he was paralyzed from the neck down when he was released from the hospital three years later.

He died on November 2, 2018, at the early age of 28.

Not much more wiki details of him are available right now. We will surely update the section after we fetch genuine information.

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