Gullible Chinese ate 13 frogs and almost died after following healer"s adv

Champ

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Sat May-22-04 10:26 AM
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Gullible Chinese ate 13 frogs and almost died after following healer"s adv

Chinese man named Chen was too gullible to follow bad healerr"s advice.
To get rid of pain in neck axis, he ate 6 frogs a day. As a result, parasites were bred in his body, and they almost ate the man alive.

Every day the man felt worse, but he was persistently eating frogs. In 20 days the unlucky fellow ate 130 frogs.

Real doctors examined Chen and discovered that the parasites started destroying his brain. Currently Chen is going to suit the healer, Xinhua reports.

http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/361/12876_frog.html

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kodi

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Sat May-22-04 11:02 AM
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1. so, the guy almost croaked?

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FarmerOak

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Sat May-22-04 11:07 AM
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2. Hmmmm...

Snopes would shred this story to bits.

Man named "Chen," no other name.
Unnamed "healer."
Unnamed "real doctors."
Bad math (6 * 20 = 130?)
Filtered through Russian and Chinese news agencies?

Sounds like a "oh, those wacky foreigners!" story.

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