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> INVASION USA
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> Rare brain worms latest border disease
>
> Fatal disease found in developing countries
> with poor hygiene habits hits South Texas
>
> Posted: January 13, 2007
>
> Medical professionals in South Texas have identified another disease
> that has apparently slipped across the border - caused by a rare
> brain worm that can be fatal and is being spread by unsanitary
> food-handling practices.
>
> While not yet classified as a "major outbreak," several cases of
> cysticercosis have been identified in South Texas, a spokesman for San
> Antonio's Metro Health District told KENS-TV, San Antonio.
>
> Magnetic resonance image showing multiple cysticerci within patient's
> brain
> [See URL at end of article for photos]
>
> According to the Center for Disease Control, cysticercosis is an
> infection caused by the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium. Infection occurs
> when the tapeworm larvae are ingested, pass through the intestinal wall
> and enter the body to form cysticerci, or cysts. The cysts migrate
> throughout the body, resulting in symptoms that vary depending on
> whether they lodge in the muscles, the eyes, the brain or spinal cord.
>
> Symptoms for Renaldo Ramirez, 50, of Houston, began with mild
> headaches.
>
> The tile worker, who immigrated to the U.S. from El Salvador 20 years
> ago, told KENS-TV he had been eating most of his meals at mobile
> kitchens because of the convenience, but after his ordeal with brain
> worms, he insisted on preparing his own food.
>
> "He's scared now. He's scared of any food from outside," his sister,
> who interpreted for him, said.
>
> "It was a mild headache, but it wouldn't go away," Ramirez said. "It
> was just there and it wouldn't go away with Tylenol."
>
> Clinic doctors gave him blood pressure medicine, but a few days later,
> he passed out and did not awaken for eight days.
>
> Dr. Aaron Mohanty, an assistant professor in the Department of
> Neurosurgery at the University of Texas Medical School, found and
> removed a cyst caused by a tapeworm larvae living in Ramirez's brain.
> Undiagnosed and untreated, he could have died within hours.
>
> According to the CDC, infection from the tapeworm, which is found
> worldwide, occurs most often in rural, developing countries with poor
> hygiene where pigs are allowed to roam freely and eat human feces. This
> allows the tapeworm infection to be completed and the cycle to
> continue.
>
> The risk for U.S. citizens has been considered rare due to strict food
> processing and handling regulations, especially for pork products, and
> generally high levels of hygiene.
>
> The condition is very rare in Muslim countries where eating pork is
> forbidden.
>
> "The cycle starts with a human that's infected with the tapeworm," said
> Dr. Luis Ostrosky, of the UT Houston Medical Center.
>
> Failure to wash hands after using the restroom can result in
> contaminating food and infecting further victims.
>
> "These eggs hatch in the intestine and go through the gut-wall and into
> the circulation where they get stuck somewhere," Ostrosky said.
>
> Cysticercosis joins Morgellons disease, a mysterious infection
> seemingly similar to one documented 300 years ago, in the list of new
> illnesses spreading throughout South Texas.
>
> While Morgellons disease has not been known to kill and it doesn't
> appear to be contagious, WND has reported its horrible symptoms are
> what worry doctors.
>
> "These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and
> tarry," Ginger Savely, a nurse practitioner in Austin who has treated a
> majority of Morgellons patients, told the San Antonio Express-News.
>
> Patients infected with the disease get lesions that never heal.
>
>
> Fibers removed from facial lesion of 3-year-old boy
> "Sometimes little black specks come out of the lesions and sometimes
> little fibers," said Stephanie Bailey, a Morgellons patient.
>
> It's those different-colored fibers that pop out of the skin that may
> be the most bizarre symptom of the disease.
>
> More than 100 cases have been reported in South Texas.
>
> "It really has the makings of a horror movie in every way," Savely
> said.
>
> The South Texas outbreak's proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border comes at
> a time when the issues of illegal immigration, border security and
> possible amnesty for over 12 million illegal aliens are being debated
> in the U.S.
>
> Despite Morgellons disease's distinctive symptoms and patients' tales
> of suffering, most of the medical community don't see the disease as
> real, with some doctors telling patients it's all in their head.
>
> Morgellons disease may remain a mystery, but cysticercosis does not.
>
> Doctors say washing hands, cooking meats thoroughly, especially pork,
> and washing fruits and vegetables are the best ways to avoid the
> disease.
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Just a little biodiversity to go along with ethnic diversity.

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