Re: Dogs
- From: "Séimí mac Liam" <gwyddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:35:22 -0600
"Adam Whyte-Settlar" <none@none> wrote in
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"Séimí mac Liam" <gwyddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"...The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today
announced about 14 percent of the U.S. population is infected with
Toxocara, or internal roundworms, contracted from dogs and cats. The
results of this study demonstrate that Toxocara infection in the
United States is more widespread and common than previously
understood. This infectious agent is capable of causing zoonotic
disease that can lead to blindness and serious systemic illness..."
Underestimate it at your child's peril.
"People can be infected by the dog roundworm, but the worms cannot
complete their lifecycle in humans. Ingested eggs hatch into larvae
and enter the blood stream, but the great majority are walled off and
killed by the immune system without any clinical signs." So says
Nurse Minerva.
Much as her uniform is fetching I tend to favour The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention as a more credible source.
You, I say, You favor an American Institution over a British one? I have
died and gone to heaven. Now if we could get you to read and understand
the numbers quoted on the CDC web site. Annually there are 3000-4000
blood samples submitted annually for testing of which 40% show positive
for Toxocaria. Toxocaria is not even a reportable disease. That is the
only hard numbewrs availabe on the seroprevalence of Toxocaria. All
others are estimates. Toxocaria does not just come from dogs but from
the feces of cats, foxes, cows and smine, as well. Probably from other
animals as well, but because the p[roblem is not that common, it seeams
nobody is looking too hard. For a condition which has been known for
nearly 60 years, there sure aren't an awful lot of people showing major
concern. Not nearly as much concern, for instance, as e. coli on spinach
or mad cow disease.
--
Saint Séimí mac Liam
Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December '99
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