"I don't?"
"Bad news is you both have rat lung worm parasites."
"Into the volcano!"
Posted on 04/12/2017 10:50:48 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A Bay Area couple returned from Hawaii with more than a tan.
Newlyweds Ben Manilla, a journalism professor at UC Berkeley, and Eliza Lape contracted a brain-infecting parasite called rat lungworm disease, according to Hawaii News Now.
Manilla, 64, and Lape, 57, traveled to Maui for their wedding in January. After the ceremony, they spent a fortnight in the area of Hana, Hawaii News Now reported.
Lape began presenting symptoms even before the duo’s return to San Francisco.
"My symptoms started growing to feeling like somebody was taking a hot knife and just stabbing me in different parts of my body," she told Hawaii News Now.
Rat lungworm disease is caused by parasite that impacts rats that then excrete worm larvae. Slugs and snails consume the larvae, which are then passed on to humans who eat raw produce, freshwater shrimp or land crabs that contain traces of the worms, according to Hawaii News Now. The parasitic worms trigger a rare meningitis that affects the brain and spinal cord.
Lape has recovered, but Manilla has spent a month in the ICU and needs to undergo rehabilitation, the TV station said.
"I've had several operations, two pneumonias, a blood clot. Right now, I'm dealing with a kidney issue, all of which was spurred by the ratlung," Manilla said to Hawaii News Now.
The couple is speaking about the experience to help other people take appropriate precautions.
"Had we known we were walking into this kind of environment, we would have had a completely different attitude," Lape told Hawaii News Now. "It really does disrupt and destroy people's lives."
Officials have noted an upswing in rat lungworm disease – at least nine cases recently – on the Big Island and on Maui, Hawaii News Now reported. But health experts believe that number may not include people who went to private clinics, not hospitals. The Department of Health is investigating.
A. cantonensis has many vectors, with the most common being several species of snails. Freshwater prawns, crabs, or other paratenic, or transport, hosts can also act as vectors.
Originally introduced to Hawaii for food in 1956, most people haven’t eaten a Tahitian Prawn (Macrobrachium lar) before. They are ubiquitous throughout the Hawaiian Islands.
I saw a show on the Discovery channel about this issue. A young college student volunteered to go to Hawaii to help in a public garden project. He ate raw vegies from the garden that had snail/slug trails on it. I believe the student ended up dying from the parasites that he ingested.
LOL!!!
Bass Tuhd!!!
Dat berry punny!!!
If you don’t have activated charcoal - burnt toast works -
Just call it “The Democrat Disease”
I’m no expert, I would think that most ocean fish would be safe (at least I hope so, I just had sushi/sashimi the other day!) Most parasites seem to have a complicated sequence to reproduce/infect. Since tuna live in the sea and humans on land there is little to connect them. A parasite can’t count on its eggs getting from tuna to humans to make it’s reproduction successful. I do know that the Japanese do not eat freshwater fish raw.
It was a joke about brainless California Liberals not being able to get a brain-infecting parasite. Perhaps I showed a lack of sensitivity for people suffering a medical emergency.
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Tuna are not bottom feeders. They should be safe.
The really dangerous stuff is the egg row.
That is what makes sushi suicide..
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Roger the brainless libs.
Bay Area is infested with them.
Makes me wonder about shellfish sushi.
YUCK! Never eat SUSHI! Cook your food!
Rat lungworm disease is caused by parasite that impacts rats that then excrete worm larvae. Slugs and snails consume the larvae, which are then passed on to humans who eat raw produce, freshwater shrimp or land crabs that contain traces of the worms, according to Hawaii News Now. The parasitic worms trigger a rare meningitis that affects the brain and spinal cord.
They probably took the organism TO Hawaii, not the other way around.
Crap, I ate that a couple of days ago.
Watch the program called “Monsters Inside Me”. You will be shocked at all the potential hazards lurking nearby.
I prefer my slugs with a bit of salt.
"I don't?"
"Bad news is you both have rat lung worm parasites."
"Into the volcano!"
Yea, that’s what was my reaction too.
Ohhhh. That’s spooky!
Howlooooooo!
Egg Row:
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