Posted on 11/06/2021 10:05:21 AM PDT by tired&retired
A Texas community is dealing with the spread of an intestinal parasite that inhabits the guts of humans and other animals and excretes larvae during defecation.
The Guardian reports 16 residents in Rancho Vista, Texas -- located within an hour from Austin -- were notified that they were infected by Strongyloides after giving blood and stool samples to a noted university conducting a study researching the spread of the parasite.
The report confirms the individuals included a woman who was pregnant and a 2-year-old child.
Strongyloides are capable of contaminating soil due to a sewage leak and surviving up to three weeks. It's common for the parasite to burrow through the skin of a person walking barefoot, enter their bloodstream and lungs and rise into the windpipe, where Strongyloides are coughed up and swallowed.
However, the town's parasite infection was previously unknown given researchers labeled it anonymously as "Community A" and residents are concerned no one capable of helping will lend them aid.
Rancho Vista has an estimated 400 homes on a small number of streets. Its population is mostly comprised of Mexican Americans or immigrants from Mexico, many of which who work in lower-paying fields, according to the Guardian .
Strongyloides are considered to be one of the most neglected soil-transmitted parasites as doctors who lack training in tropical medicine are unable to recognize them and aren't mandated to report findings to state authorities.
However, more than half a billion individuals globally are estimated to be infected, which includes detected infections in U.S. areas such as Appalachia and Los Angeles County.
Strongyloides -- though, at times, symptomless -- are the deadliest of soil-transmitted parasites as it's capable of multiplying throughout the body and causing death in individuals with lower immune systems.
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Roundworm infections are almost unheard of in North America, but it is common in south America, and warm third world nations where people defecate on the ground. I wonder why it is showing up in Texas all of the sudden? Well, I am sure the CDC will be on top of this in no time./S
Parasites bringing parasites how appropo. Unfortunately that’s probably the most minor thing the MF’s are bringing. Once they’ve destroyed us, they’ll take the money (yours and mine of course)and run- hopefully they run back to hole cockroaches crawled out of, once not enough people left here still working for a living and ‘contributions’ run out
-PJ
“Ivermectin, anyone?”
Only kills Strongyloides in horses. Any other ideas?
President Retard has illegally and purposely flooded our country with disease and pestilence. 🤪
He is a criminal
President Retard has illegally and purposely flooded our country with disease and pestilence. 🤪
He is a criminal
I wonder where it came from? 🤡
I’m wearing masks on my feet.
I’m wearing masks on my feet.
I'll wait and see what's left over after them church ladies has they swap meet.
That's where the deals are.
Foot masks. STAT!
Nasty parasite. Forget about carefree and barefoot.
Don’t give away my moonshine recipe!
I never wore shoes except for school and church growing up.
Even in the snow I was comfortable barefoot.
Each year they would spray tar on the dirt road in front of our house to keep the dust down. I would walk in the fresh tar barefoot as it put a thick layer on my feet that protected from thorns.
It was a wise decision as many children I grew up with ended up in trouble of some sort or another. Also, we learned Southern values.
Anyway, the summer of 1975 when I was still 12, I used to walk to town with my cousins on the dirt road that was also tarred over as you describe. Now when I say town, I mean a general store, a couple gas stations and a tiny supermarket. We were really out in the sticks. It was about a four mile walk each way and my cousins did it in their bare feet.
I envied them for that as the blacktop was just too hot for me not to wear shoes. But they encouraged me to leave my shoes at home and break in my "tenderfeet."
At first, I mostly walked in the grass on the side of the road but eventually my feet hardened to where I could walk on the blacktop and dirt roads just like they could. Which was an amazing skill to take back to East Boston where everybody wore shoes all the time, even in the house.
From that point on, I never wore shoes in the house again. But even that is considered "eccentric" up here in the Northeast where almost everybody wears shoes from the time they get up to the time they go to bed.
Ivermectin is banned, you must suffer.
We have found the cause of the Agony of Defeat.
I got hookworm in my feet years ago in Barbados (dogs pooping on the beach I guess). Luckily my doc had been a medic in Vietnam and knew what it was right off. He had everybody in his clinic come and look. “Do you mind? They’ve never seen this - although I doubt they will ever see it again either!”
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