Parasitic Diseases

Officials Confirm 9th Case Of Rat Lungworm Disease - Honolulu Civil Beat Officials Confirm 9th Case Of Rat Lungworm Disease - Honolulu Civil Beat Posted: 30 Jan 2020 06:14 PM PST There were nine cases of rat lungworm disease acquired in Hawaii County in 2019, state health department officials announced Thursday. An adult resident of Kauai is believed to have caught the parasitic disease during a December trip to the Big Island, making the individual the sixth Hawaii resident to fall ill. The other three cases were tourists. Angiostrongylus cantonensis parasitic larvae can unknowingly find themselves in human hosts and cause severe neurological damage and even death as they mature into nematode worms. CDC, DPDx The symptoms this patient felt included headaches, nausea, vomiting, neck stiffness and joint pain, prompting the person to seek medical care. A medical investigation was unable to determine how the person contracted t...

A man suffered splitting headaches for years. Turns out, tapeworms were living in his brain - CNN A man suffered splitting headaches for years. Turns out, tapeworms were living in his brain - CNN Posted: 30 Jan 2020 08:26 AM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content] A man suffered splitting headaches for years. Turns out, tapeworms were living in his brain    CNN He worried about headaches and fainting spells, only to learn a tapeworm was living in his brain for years - The Washington Post Posted: 31 Jan 2020 02:07 AM PST When Jordan Amadio looked down at Moctezuma's MRI results, the neurosurgeon recognized — but almost couldn't believe — what looked to be lodged in Moctezuma's brain. As he opened up Moctezuma's skull during an emergency surgery in May 2019, he was able to confirm what it was that had uncomfortably set up shop next to the man's brain stem: a tapeworm measuring about an inch and a hal...

Putting Neglected Tropical Diseases in the Spotlight: Lessons Learned from Chagas Disease - State of the Planet Putting Neglected Tropical Diseases in the Spotlight: Lessons Learned from Chagas Disease - State of the Planet Posted: 30 Jan 2020 02:17 PM PST Putting Neglected Tropical Diseases in the Spotlight: Lessons Learned from Chagas Disease by Maria del Pilar Fernandez | January 30, 2020 Photos of a "kissing bug," whose feces can spread the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Photo: CDC Today, January 30th 2020, is the inaugural World Neglected Tropical Diseases day. For the first time, global community leaders, health experts, civil society advocates, and policymakers have united to raise awareness about neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), in hopes of removing the "neglected" label from the group's name. But what are these NTDs, and why are they neglected? NTDs are a mixed group of parasitic and ba...

Second Case of 'Cattle Eye Worm' Infection Reported In US - Health | Health.com - Health.com Second Case of 'Cattle Eye Worm' Infection Reported In US - Health | Health.com - Health.com Posted: 07 Nov 2019 12:00 AM PST Second Case of 'Cattle Eye Worm' Infection Reported In US - Health | Health.com Top Navigation Close Explore Health.com Profile Menu Follow us Close Share options Close View image A Second Case of 'Cattle Eye Worm' Has Been Reported in the US. Here's What That Means this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. You are subscribed to email updates from "common parasitic diseases in cattle" - Google News . To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now . Email delivery powered by Google ...

Engineered symbionts activate honey bee immunity and limit pathogens - Science Magazine Engineered symbionts activate honey bee immunity and limit pathogens - Science Magazine Posted: 30 Jan 2020 10:48 AM PST Inducing immune bee genes Honey bees are prone to parasitism by the Varroa mite, which is a vector for several bee pathogens. However, honey bees are also host to the symbiotic gut bacterium Snodgrassella alvi. Leonard et al. engineered S. alvi to produce double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)—a stimulus for insect RNA interference defense responses—from a plasmid containing two inverted promoters tagged with a fluorescent label (see the Perspective by Paxton). This dsRNA module can be targeted to interfere with specific bee genes as well as crucial viral and mite genes. The authors found that gene expression could be blocked for at least 15 days as the symbionts established in the bees' guts and continuously expressed the dsRNA construc...

Putting Neglected Tropical Diseases in the Spotlight: Lessons Learned from Chagas Disease - State of the Planet Putting Neglected Tropical Diseases in the Spotlight: Lessons Learned from Chagas Disease - State of the Planet Posted: 30 Jan 2020 02:17 PM PST Putting Neglected Tropical Diseases in the Spotlight: Lessons Learned from Chagas Disease by Maria del Pilar Fernandez | January 30, 2020 Photos of a "kissing bug," whose feces can spread the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Photo: CDC Today, January 30th 2020, is the inaugural World Neglected Tropical Diseases day. For the first time, global community leaders, health experts, civil society advocates, and policymakers have united to raise awareness about neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), in hopes of removing the "neglected" label from the group's name. But what are these NTDs, and why are they neglected? NTDs are a mixed group of parasitic and ba...