Gnathostoma's Roundworm Disease

Tapeworms are flat segmented worms that have a head, neck, and segments called proglottids; the scientific name is Cestoda the flatworm. Animals become infected with these tapeworms from grazing in pastures that have tapeworms in the grass and from drinking water that is contaminated with the tapeworms. When Humans eat the meat from these animals raw or not cooked all of the way they become infected with the tapeworms. Humans can also become infected by drinking contaminated water. Generally the symptoms of being infected with these tapeworms in humans is so mild that they are not recognized and can easily be treated, although in some cases it can become very dangerous.

Within days of becoming infected with the disease you may develop itchy skin, fever, chills, cough, and muscle aches. When adult worms are present they move to the intestine, liver, and bladder, causing inflammation or scarring. Children who are infected can develop anemia, malnutrition, and learning difficulties. Rarely, eggs are found in the brain and spinal cord causing seizures, paralysis, or spinal cord inflammation. Lack of hygiene and certain things kids do such as swimming or fishing in infested water can make them

Roundworms are parasites that can infect people. They usually live in the intestines. There are different kinds of worms that can cause infection, and they can range in length from 1 millimeter to 1 meter.

The new guinea flatworm is from the united states of America.this worm is native to the island of New Guinea where it was originally to have been found in. You can find these worms in tropical areas,coastlands ,planted forests, riparian zones shrubs and urban areas as well.it feeds on earthworms ,slugs and arthopods. This worm can harm the snail called The Giant East African Snail. This worm also can mainly eat mollusks and it especially likes to prey on snail. To hunt for it's prey the worm deposits itself to the bottom of a cabbage leave. It also can follow snail mucus trails to find it`s trail. It also has a infectious rate at least 14.1% and this thing usually lives on cabbage leaves. This worm not only affects the whole population of animals or a specific area this worm can affect humans as

The most common way this disease is transmitted from one animal to the next is through mosquitoes. A mosquito carrying infective heartworm larvae bites a dog and transmits the infection to them. The larvae grow, develop, and migrate in the body over a period of 6 to 7 months, in which time they become sexually mature male and female worms. this is the prepatent period. The worms then reside in the heart, lungs, and associated blood vessels. The worms begin to mate and release microfilaria into the blood

The author describes the first time that her was familiar with eosinophils when she was eight years old in the shores of Lake Erie. In college, she was want to work in laboratory research. At nineteen, she received a grant to study hibernation in Maltese snails. After she continued make different research, in medical school her had taken an interest in infectious disease mostly with animals. And now twenty years, later, one of these was likely causing the fevers, hives, and liver pain in her Vietnamese patient the man with a worm in his flesh. A man who visited Vietnam is struck by a strange illness, and the doctor must use her detective skills to discover the cause and the doctor must use her detective skills to discover the cause. The Doctor treat Hanh’s worm, it just disappeared with albendazole, after several months Hanh’s eosinophil count gradually returned to normal, and he has been well ever since. Doctors and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the cause of the disease was when Hanh ate the raw cobra in a trip on the Nah Trang coast in is a coastal resort city in southern

They then lodge in the heart, lungs, and surrounding blood vessels and begin reproducing. Adult worms can grow up to 12 inches in length, can live 5-7 years, and a dog can have as many as 250 worms in its system.”

Devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) is an infectious disease that is most commonly found within Tasmania Devils. DFTD is a cancerous disease and is commonly carried through liver cells and is spread by biting through mating fights within the Devil population. This cancerous disease is one of the major reasons in how this species is endangered and facing extinction as there have been no recently discovered cures to stop the spread of DFTD. The following annotated bibliography highlights the problems of DFTD within Tasmanian Devil populations and the scientific communities strive to find a cure.

Once inside the human the worms begin to create nodules within the human’s skin. These nodules are obstructions causing bumps and lacerations beneath the skins surface. As the eggs are released they begin to travel throughout the subcutaneous layer of the host’s skin (Figure 4) causing their immune system to react (Gonzales et al. 2009), this reaction causes the bodily mutilation that is associated with river blindness. The disease may range mild (dermatitis) to severe (visual impairment and blindness).

Parasites have a complex and interesting life cycle. “A parasite is an organism that live on or in a host and gets its food from or at the expense of its host” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, source 2). Some parasitic life forms have very short lives while others can live for years, even living in the harshest of conditions. When the word parasite is mentioned most people think of the water leech. While it is a parasite there are many more that most humans do not know about, and people should really pay more attention to and research all the different parasites there are. For instance, there is the roundworm also known as Baylisascaris procyonis. Although humans are not a definitive, or

A person can obtain a tapeworm parasite through the ingestion of raw meat from infected animals or by consuming the parasite in tablet form. After a person consumes a tapeworm, traveling through the body, eating as it moves around. The tapeworm usually consumes a significant portion of a person’s food to cause a calorie shortage and weight loss. Certain tapeworms can grow up to 15-30 feet in length and live up to 20 years in the host. When the tapeworm dieter decides that they have lost enough weight, they take antibiotics to kill the parasite, eventually leaving the body in a bowel movement. People have been known to take drugs designed to reduce the lifespan of the tapeworm so that it is already dead when it is removed from the body.

Even though this disease doesn’t initially effect the host there can still be some side effects from the disease. The host can experience things such as diarrhea, vomit, or nausea. Also some other common things is the host can run a fever or experience itching. These symptoms do not appear until about a year of having the disease and worm in your body. About 90% of the time the worm can exit through the feet or legs, but the worm can appear on other body parts too. If you do not have an active health care or are treating the blister or disease correctly then the worm exiting can be very painful. This can cause an infection and leave the person to be unable to do certain activities for weeks or even

Trichinella spiralis are unique as they spend their entire life cycle in the same host. All three stages of life cycle, adult, new born larvae and infective muscle larvae develop and reside in one host. Infection can be cause by consumption of infected meat, undercooked or raw meat. An adult trichinella spiralis resides around the layer of epithelial cells of the small intestine of its host and can range from 1.4 to 3.2 mm (http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Trichinella_spiralis/ ). The adults trichinella spiralis mate and the new born larvae make their way into blood streams from where they are spread through out body into tissues and organs. However, only the ones that enter the skeletal or striated muscles develop into infective muscle larvae. T. spiralis makes itself at home by invading the muscle cells (myotubes) and transforming them into nurse cells. Parasitic helminths have a remarkable ability

Elephantiasis is a neglected tropical disease. Infection occurs when filarial parasites are transmitted to humans through mosquitoes. The mosquito grows into a adult worm and the worm lives in the lymphatic system. It is usually acquired in childhood causing hidden damage to the lymphatic system. There are 8 filariasis worms known to affect humans and these can be divided according to the body area they affect.

     Transmission of the parasite can occur in several different ways. Direct transmission can occur by handling infected animal or human feces. One quarter of reported direct transmission infections occurred by direct contact with feces, while the rest were reported to have happened by person to person contact (Donnelly & Stentiford, 1997).