Parasitic Diseases

Doctors pulled a 30 centimetre-long worm out of a woman's intestines and they think it came from invisible parasitic eggs she accidentally ate - Business Insider South Africa Doctors pulled a 30 centimetre-long worm out of a woman's intestines and they think it came from invisible parasitic eggs she accidentally ate - Business Insider South Africa Posted: 19 Jun 2019 07:12 AM PDT After complaining about stomach pains for more than 10 years, a Chinese woman underwent surgery where doctors removed a 30 centimetre-long parasitic worm  from her intestines, according to Fox News. Doctors found that the woman had ascaris, a parasitic infection that occurs when a person accidentally ingests parasite eggs through contaminated water or food. The infection is spread through human faeces and infected people typically show no symptoms. To protect against a parasitic infection, wash your hands and thoroughly clean any produce before...

'Not every headache turns out to be a parasite': Woman's suspected brain tumor turns out to be tapeworm - WJCL News 'Not every headache turns out to be a parasite': Woman's suspected brain tumor turns out to be tapeworm - WJCL News Posted: 11 Jun 2019 12:00 AM PDT Brain tumor, the doctors said.After examining scans and ruling out other possibilities, cancer was the most likely explanation for the unusual symptoms that Rachel Palma experienced beginning in January 2018."I was having involuntary movements with my right hand, so I was dropping things," the Middletown, New York, resident said. "The worst symptoms obviously were hallucinations. And I wasn't always oriented to time and place."Once, Palma locked herself out of her own house and another time, her bank account."I was no longer able to process the fact that a key opens the door. The computer screen look...

John Dalton: 'After a quick shower and shave, I exchange WhatsApp messages with my family over breakfast' - Irish Examiner John Dalton: 'After a quick shower and shave, I exchange WhatsApp messages with my family over breakfast' - Irish Examiner Posted: 25 Jun 2019 11:00 AM PDT John Dalton, professor of molecular parasitology, NUI Galway. 6am After a quick shower and shave, I exchange WhatsApp messages with my family over breakfast. I moved to Galway five months ago. They live in Belfast so I commute home at the weekends to see my sons Fintan and Matthew, and wife Georgina. 6.50am I leave the house with a takeaway tea which I enjoy in Salthill while looking out over Galway Bay. If it's a nice day I walk along the prom or tune into Newstalk on the car radio. 7.30am My work involves much collaboration with scientists in other countries, for example Australia and the US, so we make good use of...

Could this be the future of toilets? - ABC News Could this be the future of toilets? - ABC News Posted: 24 Jun 2019 02:03 PM PDT This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Big, black wasplike things living in your toilet may sound more like a horror scene than a sanitation solution. That's certainly what people in rural Louisiana thought in the summer of 1930, when black soldier flies infested a set of newly installed privies. "[C]onsiderable consternation often resulted when a person lifted a privy lid and was greeted by a swarm of insects resembling wasps, or when upon leaving the privy he experienced a strange creeping and buzzing sensation due to flies being confined within his garments," wrote researchers in an account published in 1930 in the Journal of Economic Entomology. To make matters worse, hungry local chickens tore down the privies' foundations in search of larvae pupating in the surrounding dirt. Now,...

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