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Brain worms can be deadly
khou. ^
| Monday, November 27, 2006
| Janice Williamson
Posted on 11/30/2006 9:25:08 PM PST by dennisw
A potentially fatal disease rarely seen here has popped up in Houston four times in the past two months. It's linked to tapeworms and their eggs.
He ate at mobile kitchens until he found out food contaminated with eggs from a tapeworm almost killed him.
"He's scared now. He's scared of any food from outside," said Marjorie, his daughter & translator.
The tile worker immigrated from El Salvador 20 years ago said early symptoms were subtle.
"It was a mild headache but it wouldn't go away," Marjorie explained. "It was just there and it wouldn't go away with Tylenol."
Doctors at a clinic gave him medicine for high blood pressure.
A few days later Ramirez passed out and didn't wake up for eight days.
"This is a picture of the cyst," said Dr. Aaron Mohanty, a UT Houston Medical School neurosurgeon.
Dr. Mohanty found the cyst with tapeworm larvae in Ramirez's brain.
It's a disease called cysticercosis.
"If they delayed 12 hours, six to 12 hours more he would not have survived," said Dr. Mohanty. "He was deeply unconscious."
This was Mohanty's fourth case in two months of a disease most often seen in developing countries.
"I think it's just a chance factor," said Dr. Mohanty.
In all four patients the UT Houston neurosurgeon removed the cysts through a small incision in the brain.
"The cycle starts with a human that's infected with the tapeworm," said Dr. Luis Ostrosky with the UT Houston Medical School.
Dr. Luis Ostrosky tells us the eggs from a tapeworm are spread by a human host who doesn't practice good hygiene after using the bathroom.
An unsuspecting victim then eats the contaminated food.
"These eggs hatch in the intestine and go through the gutwall and into the circulation and get stuck somewhere," said Dr. Ostrosky.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cysticercosis; health; houston; medicine; parasites; tapeworm; texas; worms
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To: dennisw
The guy's been here 20 years and he needs a translator - speaks volumes.
101
posted on
12/01/2006 8:28:07 AM PST
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: BlessedBeGod
And if you don't grab the door handle with a paper towel on the way out, it's as if you didn't wash your hands either.
102
posted on
12/01/2006 8:31:28 AM PST
by
Nascar Dad
(Liberals, Libertarians, Losers....)
To: dighton
LOL! Nothing "sez Iraq" like a *Sazerac* cocktail, with a few brain worms on the side.
103
posted on
12/01/2006 9:20:15 AM PST
by
Rte66
To: Nascar Dad
Like the girl in the "Dan-Active" immunity yogurt commercial who pushes the paper towel dispenser lever in the ladies' bathroom with her elbows.
104
posted on
12/01/2006 9:23:47 AM PST
by
Rte66
To: Snoopers-868th
That is not what I meant. The brain thing is disgusting. The parasite thing is too if you stop to think about it.The parasite thing....you mean K-Fed, right?
105
posted on
12/01/2006 9:28:27 AM PST
by
Ignatz
(Click your mouse three times and repeat, "There's no place like 127.0.0.1")
To: dennisw
Could it be that liberalism is due to a brain worm infestation?
106
posted on
12/01/2006 9:29:33 AM PST
by
The Great RJ
("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
To: lastchance
Yes the female worms crawl out at night time to lay their eggs.
107
posted on
12/01/2006 9:50:23 AM PST
by
therut
To: Ignatz
The parasite thing....you mean K-Fed, right? I am lost, I admit it, don't know what you are talking about. What I meant by my evolution remark is that parasites are the oldest living organism and I once saw something that claimed it was parasites that cause the evolution of species in general. We all have parasites. I do not believe in the theory of evolution if that is what you mean and did not mean to imply that.
To: Snoopers-868th
Lol! It was a jab at well-known parasite Kevin Federline, the soon-to-be-ex-Mr. Britney Spears.
As in, "Did Britney use a lit match match to get rid of K-Fed? That's how one usually gets a leech to let go!"
109
posted on
12/01/2006 10:59:02 AM PST
by
Ignatz
(Click your mouse three times and repeat, "There's no place like 127.0.0.1")
To: kinoxi
Is this another one of those third world freakish diseases that pop up regularly from illegals? Oh, pulleeze. At least half the white males I see in mens rooms don't wash their hands, and that includes restaurant staff.
That's why I got the hepatitis vaccine - there seem to be more and more outbreaks.
To: colorado tanker
Tiolet flushed with either bottom of shoe if a regular toilet, or elbo used to flush urinal.
111
posted on
12/01/2006 11:55:18 AM PST
by
woollyone
(a man self-deceived is twice deceived)
To: ghostkatz
112
posted on
12/01/2006 12:01:46 PM PST
by
fella
(Respect does not equal fear unless your a tyrant.)
To: Ignatz
To: ROTB
Son just had his honeymoon in Mexico and came home sick as a dog. Even passed out from dehydration. And they DIDN'T drink the aqua.
114
posted on
12/01/2006 12:17:22 PM PST
by
bonfire
To: Snoopers-868th
Going to bed and probably lay awake feeling all kinds of crawly
things now. Have a good night.
This thread is having one good effect.
I don't think I'll ever camp out overnight again without a
full-enclosure bug/mosquito netting.
115
posted on
12/01/2006 12:33:23 PM PST
by
VOA
To: BlessedBeGod
I work in a financial services headquarters, and I can tell you
that a huge percentage of the Indian and Pakistani (professional)
women do NOT wash their hands after going to the bathroom. Ick.
I heard this on Paul Harvey news maybe 10 years ago.
There was a convention of epidemiologist and affiliated health
professionals in New Orleans.
Some professor got some graduate students to "loiter" in the
bathrooms of the convention hall to keep tab on the percentage
of folks that washed their hands following a visit to the the urinal
or toilet.
IIRC, about half these males in this Health Professional sector
didn't wash their hands.
What was more shocking? The percentage of females not washing hands
was even higher (about sixty percent).
116
posted on
12/01/2006 12:40:54 PM PST
by
VOA
To: GulfBreeze
117
posted on
12/01/2006 7:41:53 PM PST
by
GulfBreeze
(I asked God about it and he doesn't believe in atheists either. So can you prove they exist?)
To: VOA
To: ladyjane
I said nothing of the kind.
119
posted on
12/01/2006 10:40:14 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Ego chatters on endlessly. Mind speaks in great silence.)
To: ArtyFO
Thankfully, in our area, we have great, local, indigenous farmers who speak English and who aren't Third World interlopers bent on cultural subversion.
120
posted on
12/01/2006 10:43:46 PM PST
by
Thumper1960
(Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
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