Post by felixwillford on Jul 19, 2008 13:45:01 GMT -5
I hear you Kmarie but you know there is no treatment for any VLM regardless of the worm. Even for the very typical roundworms that we are exposed too daily from our pets.
I'd be way worried if the larva of these specific worms didn't migrate through our tissues, again even though all of them can and do-do that...haha not doo-doo! If they had the simple life cycle as the other roundworms and did reach adult egg laying stages in our bowels it may be quite difficult to kill the infective eggs from sewage and treatment plants. But because we'd have to be eating the infective stage (not just the egg but the larval stage that will allow the worm to reach egg laying) of this parasite, not just licking some dirt it's not too likely that there will be a high infected rate pooping the eggs into our toilets, in to the sewage plants. You know what I mean? Unless you eat rabbit, wood chucks and birds that carry the infective larva stages and I don't know if cooking would eventually destroy the cyst and kill the worm 'cause I didn't get that far into it. I'm not being a beotch really! We've got a gang of raccoons here...I saw a couple in the city about a month ago, I mean down by my new job which is only a mile or two from down town!!! So because we've got quite a bit of raccoons around us and it's known those worms are in my state, I studied Baylisascaris pretty throughly when I was an obsessed worm woman on a mission to save the world ;D.
Unless you're talkin' for real bio terrorism like the eggs of these parasites are intentionally implanted into our sewage systems...geeze that would and could be messy. But I also feel that would have to be a serious covert operation that would spread around the whole country, state by state, county by county. There would have to be a lot involved, a lot of bad people involved that would be okay with exposing even their own families to the parasite. That would make me very, very sad.
Carrie,
I am not saying this (bioterrorism)............ the CDC has it on their site. Just
noticed it and passing it on as I found it "interesting"
I agree with you on the CLM / VLM's and animals.
Was off meds (wormers) for a little over one year and
just last week . .... I took Fenben (lots of it) and the CLM's
came and I know something was being killed,
but not EVERYTHING.
Moved into a new apartment with
brand new carpeting and had the itchies which is what
prompted me to take the fenben. Thought I was having
a "chemical reaction" to the new carpeting/new environment.
Kmarie