Yanks' Star To Be Tested For Potentially Fatal Condition

http://msn.foxsports.com/story/2606008 ^ | July 26, 2004 | Fox Sports via MSN

[John W]

New York Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi is to undergo tests for a potentially fatal condition sometimes caused by intestinal parasites and he could miss the rest of the season, according to the Newark Star-Ledger.

Giambi is expected to be with the team in Toronto on Monday, and then he will fly to New York on Tuesday to meet with an infectious disease specialist.

[NYCVirago]

Well, Kevin Brown has gotten pretty darn sick. He lost 15 pounds since the beginning of the season. He's only now starting to get his strength back. Hopefully, he'll be back in the rotation soon but he's still nowhere near 100%.

I saw Brown pitch in his rehab start with the Staten Island Yankees. He looks good and healthy now, while Giambi looked awful this weekend on the bench for the Yankees-Red Sox game. I think part of the reason may be that Brown was already on the DL resting, while Giambi was still trying to play, even though he was so sick. Let's hope that it's not anything worse with Jason.

[savedbygrace]

I got tears comin' out my eyes. That is too funny for words.

[NYCVirago]

I read what I read........

Then you must have a link for your accusations, then. Please post it.

[saquin]

Yeah, Giambi has looked awful lately. Pale as a ghost and glassy-eyed. The other day he said "I see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it seems to keep fading away." That doesn't sound good.

It's good to hear Kevin Brown looks better.

[vetvetdoug]

When I lived in Japan the locals were notorious for using night soil as fertilizer. They could grow carrots two feet long, radishes the size of softballs, and potatoes the size of basketballs. An improperly sanitized salad or raw vegetable service would spread the organisms in the class Mastigophora or Sarcodina. I was working in a parasitology lab at Eglin AFB in 1975 when the Vietnamese refugees were brought there for health exams. We saw a plethora of Entomoeba coli, Entomoeba histolytica, Entomoeba hartmanii, Giardia lamblia, Balintidium coli, and saprophytes Iodemoeba butchelli and Trichomonad spp. on D'Antoni's Iodine smears. E. histolytica can be misdiagnosed on morphological exams easily with seven different organisms; E. histolytica has a clean cytoplasm with four chromotoidal bodies (4) and E. coli has a dirty cytoplasm with eight chromotoidal bodies.

After a while, we were able to come close to identifying the organisms present by the consistency and smell of the faeces. The color and look of the donors was also a piece of the puzzle. Gee I sure do miss the military.

[sarasota]

Parasites from sushi?

[hershey]

Illegal aliens bring in all kinds of diseases, TB...for instance. They work in restaurants and fast food joints and spread whatever illnesses they have. You don't have to be an illegal alien, but we have how many millions in the country now? Most have had no instruction on personal hygiene.

[Itzlzha]

Poor guy. I, also, thought it was because he had stopped using steroids. My bad. This one's nasty. Very similar to Giardia. CLICK HERE FOR INFO.

Gee, isn't THIS interesting...?

The infection is "not uncommon" in the tropics and arctics, but also in crowded situations of poor hygiene in temperate-zone urban environments. It is also frequently diagnosed among homosexual men.

My, my, my...that "lifestyle choice" just keeps getting more and more attractive now don't it? I assume they teach the KIDS this when they hold them captive in the public skrewels for pro-gay agenda indoctrinations, right?

[conservativeammom]

This is just so insanely funny, I have tears rolling down my face from laughing so hard.

Thanks for the belly laugh, I needed it.

[Spirited]

Another easy way to get these parasites is to eat food grown (particularly on feces or uncomposted dung) from other nations. If you do not wash your produce well with some preparation which will kill the parasite your body will have to struggle to get rid of it long term after it multiplies.

If he could get to a European trained Homeopath he could be more certain to rid his body of it without degrading his immune system with anti-biotics(even though this is a legitimate place for the use of anti-biotics [assuming that there is no viral component]).