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Re: Parasitic Botfly, Intensive Brain Parasites & Tooth Growing in Nose
If there ever was a parasitic infestation that I'm afraid of, a Botfly would be it... Or a large insect voraciously biting chunks out of my flesh as I helplessly watch.
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04-30-2014, 08:46 PM
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I found a dead possum that tried crawling in a pipe sticking up out of the ground and got stuck with his head and front legs in the pipe and the rest of him hanging out of the pipe. He couldn't get in and he couldn't get out. I felt so sorry for him.  Even if he had been eating my chickens' eggs.
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Botflys are nasty, cuz when you pull them out, they crap in the hole they are in
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05-07-2014, 02:38 PM
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I don't think the world would mind if that entire species, much like the mosquito, would be completely exterminated from the face of the earth.
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05-10-2014, 03:29 PM
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Re: Parasitic Botfly, Intensive Brain Parasites & Tooth Growing in Nose
The parasitic brain video looks like a hydatid cyst (Echinococcus granulosus; the dog tapeworm) or neurocysticercosis (Taenia solium; pork tapeworm). These are two of the more common causes of parasitic cyst formation and occur when the host ingests the fertilised eggs of the tapeworm usually from eating undercooked infected meat or contamination with infected fecal mater. It usually occurs in poor, rural areas where pigs are used as a means to clean up human faeces and where home slaughter is common (T.solium is particularly common across parts of rural China) or where there are close interactions between dogs and humans (E.granulosus is common across Euraisa due to occupational hazards such as livestock rearing and becomes more common when livestock offal is fed to dogs). Treatment usually involves a combination of chemotheraputic drugs (albendazole) and surgery to remove cysts. However surgery is risky as cysts usually occur deep within tissues and upon perforation of the fluid-like cysts many (thousands!!) of protoscoleces will be released leading to the formation of secondary cysts. As a result the aim of treatment is usually to stabilise the patient, complete removal of all cysts is rarely achieved. If cysts form in the brain a common symptom is late onset epilepsy and ocular disturbances. This can lead to coma and death. Hope that helps haha I'm start my course (Parasitology M.S) this September 👍 |
