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Post by special guest star on Jun 25, 2005 21:17:47 GMT -5
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Post by hg on Jun 25, 2005 22:22:54 GMT -5
I think you found it, and this is a variety of the one the CDC warned Alameda swimmers about, saying its ok, not enough harm to stop people swimming, the rash will go away in a few days.
I recognize those snake skins.
The only terrorist I see is the one who prays on children saying its ok sweetie, have another one.
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Post by Orion*** on Jun 26, 2005 2:15:33 GMT -5
This indeed could be the organism. I had an idea that it was a nematode of sorts. w/a few morphs. I see it every day on my Q-Tips fron my ears-nose-eyes. Sooo, what kills it? Salt, like on a snail? All of this information and no course of treatment?
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Post by Orion*** on Jun 26, 2005 2:21:41 GMT -5
Seems to me that we might be eating too many imported vegitables---Mexican salads-- From nasty salad bars that dont bother to clean the vegies before they are presented to us. Te world is becoming a vey unsafe place any more.
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Post by Lisa on Jun 26, 2005 19:09:48 GMT -5
taken from one of the above links:
"The parasite develops gradually to full adult size and shape, and ultimately emerge by bursting out, killing the host in the process."
Would that mean in a human it could possibly show as a sore, nodule, lesion, etc.. on the skin when exiting?
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Post by hg on Jun 27, 2005 1:09:54 GMT -5
You don't want to know it travels under the skin and comes out above the skull.
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Post by Orion*** on Jun 27, 2005 1:52:40 GMT -5
This is as close as I've been able to come to a discription yet. > Phylum Nematomorpha l Phylum Nematomorpha (thread body) l Commonly referred to as "horsehair worms" l Defining characteristics: Pseudocoelomates lacking a functional digestive tract in the adult stage l About 325 species have been described worldwide. l The adults are free-living (ca. 0.5 m to 1.0 m in length, rarely more than 1 mm wide), lacking body segmentation, and enclosed in an external collagenous cuticle. l Like most nematodes, nematomorphs are gonochoristic, and the eggs are fertilized internally. l Also like nematodes, nematomorphs molt their collagenous external cuticle as they grow, possess only longitudinal body wall muscles, and lack locomotory cilia. l Unlike nematodes, nematomorphs do not possess eutely, lack any excretory system and have a nonfunctional digestive tract. l Adults do not feed at all, but metabolize nutrients acquired as juveniles. l Females are especially inactive, devoting most of their energy to egg production. l The juveniles live as internal parasites in arthropod hosts, exploiting dissolved nutrients in the host tissues and fluids. l The parasite enters the arthropod host as a small larva, through ingestion or penetration. The larvae possess a spined, eversible proboscis (introvert). l The parasite develops gradually to full adult size and shape, and ultimately emerge by bursting out, killing the host in the process.
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Post by hg on Jun 27, 2005 3:09:42 GMT -5
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Post by special guest star on Jun 27, 2005 20:35:56 GMT -5
hg--
no offense, but there's a reason why I always post as a guest. If you want to post this, there are at least 12 people in the D/FW-North Texas area who have whatever this is. I can speak for 5 of us but I've become paranoid lately, and the CDC is one of those of whom I'm most suspicious.
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Post by linda on Jun 28, 2005 13:22:54 GMT -5
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