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Diseased Texan man survived on grasshoppers 1,000 years ago


A man who lived in America about 1,000 years ago was forced to live on grasshoppers after contracting a tropical disease that made his colon swell up to six times its normal size.
US researchers studied the microscopic gut contents of the now mummified man, buried in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas, US. 
They found the unfortunate man had Chagas disease, caused by parasites carried by insects, which resulted in him developing a megacolon .
Due to the intense pain, he was fed a diet of grasshoppers with their legs taken off by carers in his community in the final months of his life.  ....

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