> He soon developed a burn on his hand in the same size and shape as the aperture – he eventually underwent partial amputation of several fingers.
> On September 15, Pereira visited a local clinic, where his symptoms were diagnosed as the result of something he had eaten; he was told to return home and rest.
Hopefully the partial amputation occurred after the visit, otherwise I would really love to know what the clinic thought he ate that could cause partial amputation!
Well, they clearly didn’t think much of the doctors advice… the next day:
> “September 16, Alves succeeded in puncturing the capsule's aperture window with a screwdriver, allowing him to see a deep blue light coming from the tiny opening he had created.[1] He inserted the screwdriver and successfully scooped out some of the glowing substance. Thinking it was perhaps a type of gunpowder, he tried to light it, but the powder would not ignite.”
however, "let me light this glowing-blue stuff on fire to see if it is gun powder" really sounds like they forgot the part where he said "hold my beer"
I mean, I can respect an experimentalist approach. It certainly seems foolish when considered on the assumption that everyone in the world knew as much about radiation forty years ago as you and I know today, but so to assume would constitute flagrant historiographical presentism.
I'm posting a yahoo page about it because of a text preference for HN, but the Chubbyemu YouTube video is mildly terrifying. It's my understanding that this sort of thing is vanishingly rare, but serves as a reminder that it's better to have modern medicine than not.
https://news.yahoo.com/teenager-legs-fingers-amputated-eatin...
> They learned that JC only received the first dose of the meningococcal vaccine just before he entered middle school. And once he reached the age of 16, JC did not receive the recommended booster for the vaccine.
wow, so it totally is possible to lose your fingers after eating something. This also show the importance of vaccination and makes me wonder: how do I know if I missed some vaccines as a kid? how do I know whether I need a booster of something since school?
> On September 15, Pereira visited a local clinic, where his symptoms were diagnosed as the result of something he had eaten; he was told to return home and rest.
Hopefully the partial amputation occurred after the visit, otherwise I would really love to know what the clinic thought he ate that could cause partial amputation!