Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Allen Graves said: Subject: Re: [Leica] El Corcho - parasites again!<< > Ted- if you hang around another 50-75 years, you may get to see it up your way.<< Allen mon ami, Thanks but no thanks. ;-) ted > This list is beginning to sound like the review course for my > Infectious Diseases boards that I took a few years back..... > > Nevertheless, I read a few months back that the disease is beginning > to appear sporadically in south Texas as a locally acquired disease > and may be spreading slowly north. > > > Allen > > > > >Marty Deveney described so eleoquently: > >>>El Corcho - parasites again! > >> >chagas bug, a parasite which causes a fatal heart disease. > >> > The bug doesn't cause the disease, it merely vectors it. > >>http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/chagasdisease/factsht_chagas_disea s > >e.htm > >> > >> The critical life cycle step is the bug to human phase, which is > >accomplished by stercorarian transmission: the Chagas disease-infected bug > >bites you and then defecates. The bug faeces contains the infective stage > >of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent. Of course the bug bite itches, > >so the person scratches. The bug faeces and infective stages get rubbed > >into the bite, an eye, or other mucus membrane and hey presto - another case > >of Chagas disease. > >> > >> The long-term cardiac complications occur in about 30% of infections. > >Another unfortunate long-term effect is megacolon. As to what that means, > >imagine for yourself.<<<< > > > >Jeeeeessh Marty, > >thanks old buddy you spoiled my supper! ;-) > >ted > > > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html