Posted on 02/07/2013 2:12:40 PM PST by BenLurkin
Of all the maladies I hope never to be afflicted with, and there are many of those, any sickness with the term "flesh-eating" in its name is way, way at the tippy-top of my list. The very thought makes my skin crawl. (Ha! No, really.) Gaaah! After last summer's streak of flesh-eating bacteria cases, I'd already pretty much resolved to never ever swim in a lake ever again. But after hearing about the flesh-eating parasites a young Australian couple recently became infected with on a "dream trip" to the Amazon, I'm pretty much resolved to -- well, I've never been to the Amazon, and I sure as hell ain't making any plans now.
Seriously, what happened to Ally Vagg and Bryan Williams is so incredibly horrifying, I really have to warn anyone without a supremely strong stomach to stop reading now. After the jump, things get ugly. Fast.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestir.cafemom.com ...
When my niece was in med school back in the 1990's, she was going to take a trip down the Amazon with a classmate who was from Brazil. Prior to the trip, she was supposed to have a number of innoculations to protect her from the diseases that are prevalent there and ultimately she never went......
The amazon is another planet and anyone who thinks it's a wonderful, pristine rainforest filled with glorious creatures and wondefull butterflies is NUTS! There's diseases and insects there that will kill you or make you deathly ill that haven't even been discovered yet..........
I spent a little over two years in Panama while in the Army. Its JUNGLE, not rainforest.......
I’ve had boils, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever(weird, as I as in Oklahoma), scabies and few other things I picked up out in the woods.
Just gotta deal with them.
Botfly larvae removal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23eimVLAQ2c
I had a friend whose wealthy family purchased a tract of Amazon rainforest and paid him a tidy sum to conserve it.
Every year he got an all-expense-paid vacation to Brazil to inspect the tract.
He caught a rare virus that no doctor had ever seen before. It ate his heart and he died.
Lots of biodiversity down there!
it looks like a bumble bee!
Cue Jennifer Aniston's voiced character on South Park..."
There’s a place called the rainforest that truly sucks a$$.....
You're out of your mind if you think we're gonna watch that........
Yet another reason for me to have no desire to go to the Amazon.
Don’t know what that means.
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He/she is “bookmarking” the post to read later, thus “bkmk”.
Voodoo Mama’s Hot Sauce will do em in...http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Yn0ey0vePwI&vq=medium
Where did they vacation? (No time to read the article.) Washington D.C.?
They are already here, as every horse person knows. They lay eggs on horses legs (mostly) and horses lick them off. They migrate from there into the horses stomach, where they attach to their stomach lining, looking like ovate pasta, sometimes killing the horse if left untreated.
I knew a guy from Houston that went wade fishing in the Gulf a few years ago and got the flesh-eating bacteria. He had several joints amputated and eventually croaked. He had an open wound, scratch, whatever, on his leg that allowed the nastiness to invade his system. Terrible way to die, in a hospital bed while having joints removed.
His name was Mel and he was a good guy and tavern friend. Any jokes about this are not funny (not you) and you don’t have to be in some crappy part of the world. This guy was fishing off Freeport, Texas, south of Galveston.
Those things sound like warbles. They are fly larvae that get on kittens, rabbits and sometimes puppies. They cause a huge welt on the animal’s body and you can see the larvae wiggling around through the air hole it opens in the welt.
Not for the squeemish.
Turpentine kills/ drives maggots out of a wound.
I think you are confused..........
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