Do not fear the worms. We seek only to become a singular consciousness with you.

The worms are back

This reminds me of one of the worst parasites (many contenders), which is rat lungworm don't look it up, but some poor fool ate a slug and caught an infection, then went into a coma for about a month and spent the next ~8 years disabled, living in bed, in and out of hospitals, but mostly coherent and aware until he went to sleep for the last time. He was around 28 years old when he died.

Pretty horrific and you can catch probably a lesser infection from eating unwashed lettuce if rat lungworms are in the area of your food source (they've been spreading), but um. Just don't eat animals, that's an easy way to reduce the risk of catching something nasty. Which is actual in this example.