Immigrating and bio-engineered parasites

[Kritters]

This post has nothing to do with judging immigrants, specifically Mexican, but to bring up a very serious problem with regard to the fact that globalization, travel, and immigration from countries where disease is rampant has got to be taking a toll on spreading those diseases, thoroughly and furiously, not to mention spreading the bio-engineered parasites designed to infect specifically targeted areas.

Let's face it, folks. This is not a pretty mix, and none of it is being addressed by the powers that be. There is no system of checks and balances regarding the consequences of importing goods from China and other third world countries without close examination for pathogens. There is no concern for illegal immigrants and the pathogens they bring across the borders. Even if there were screening for disease, they wouldn't really know what to look for if they base their guidelines on what the CDC pathetically maintains. And there is no concern for the consequences of bio-engineering that permeates every single thing involving our lives today.

I googled Mexican parasites and here are just a few things I found. I really am worried. This is irreversible damage imposed upon life as we know it.

Gnathostomiasis

Gnathostomiasis: Definition and Much More from Answers.com

Mexican parasite


Clonorchis sinensis: Definition and Much More from Answers.com

Intestinal parasites among Indochinese refugees an...[J Fam Pract. 1981] - PubMed Result

Stool examinations of 186 Indochinese refugees and 90 immigrants from Mexico resettled in Contra Costa, County, California, have shown that 60 percent of refugees and 39 percent of immigrants are infected with one or more species of pathogenic protozoa and helminths. The mean prevalences of infections among refugees and immigrants, respectively, were: hookworms, 25 and 2 percent; whipworm, 22 and 12 percent; Ascaris, 20 and 12 percent; Giardia lamblia, 11 and 11 percent; Strongyloides, 9 and 1 percent; and Entamoeba histolytica, 2 and 4 percent. clonorchis sinensis was found in 13 percent of refugees and dwarf tapeworm in 9 percent of immigrants. Rates of infection varied with age and sex. Treatment of these parasitic infections is important and justified because: the prevalence is high; some species are highly pathogenic and directly transmittable; most species have long life spans; and safe broad-spectrum drugs are now available.
PMID: 7462932 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Illegal Immigration ALIPAC - Leishmaniasis parasite migrating North of the Border from Mexico! Leishmaniasis from Mexico and Iraq

All we can hope for, at this point in time and into the future, is to keep our immune systems as strong as possible. And even then, we don't know what will turn our immune systems against us.

Sorry for being such a downer, but this just does not look good.

Kritters

[Kritters]

Just read this from the Douglas Report:

Mexico shirks responsibility for illnesses

The continuing folly of our government's "regulatory" agencies – who seem not to be able to regulate their way out of a paper bag – underscores what I've already told you about this whole salmonella fiasco.

According to the latest news, the FDA seems to have FINALLY tracked the source of the recent outbreak of salmonella. And guess what? The source was traced to irrigation water and a Serrano pepper from a farm in – where else? – Mexico. This "key breakthrough" finally brings to an end the massive hunt for ground zero in the recent spread of Salmonella Saintpaul that first started back in April.

This time, it's not U.S. producers that are at fault, but the questionable sanitary practices of farmers from the Third World that are the root cause of the latest outbreak of nastiness here in the U.S. Would someone please tell me when our government is going to wise up to the fact that Mexico is NOT Canada South? This place is rife with the kind of health and food problems that routinely plague other impoverished Third World nations. Mexico's proximity to the U.S. doesn't mean that what happens there is any different than what happens in the poorest countries in Africa or Asia.

In light of this recent outbreak, a moratorium of six months to a year on ALL Mexican produce wouldn't be out of line. But thanks to disasters like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), that's never going to happen.

Naturally, Mexican officials are backpedaling, and have called the FDA's findings "premature." Enrique Sanchez, service director of Mexico's National Sanitation and Farm Food Quality, even sent a letter to the U.S. government "expressing our concern and most forceful complaint against this decision."

The unmitigated gall of the Mexican government never ceases to amaze me. It reminds me of when their president yelled at our president because we had the "nerve" to send the illegal immigrants from Mexico BACK to Mexico!

Sanchez said the FDA "has no scientific proof to make a decision that will harm Mexico enormously." Sanchez and the rest of the so-called Mexican government just don't get it: the FDA doesn't NEED to have any proof, scientific or otherwise, to issue a statement to protect the health of American citizens. Quite frankly, I don't care a whit for what kind of harm is done to Mexico – I'd rather see a dozen Mexican farms suffer than to have one American citizen be sickened by tainted Mexican produce.

Don't forget that when this outbreak first started, it was American tomato farmers who felt the brunt of FDA warnings – even though their product was not, ultimately, found to be at fault for the outbreak. If the U.S. government has the power to make its own farmers endure a crop ban, how can the Mexican government believe that their farms are somehow immune from this treatment?

The problem is that the Mexican government doesn't really take U.S. national sovereignty seriously. They figure that the U.S. and Mexico are essentially the same country, and that Mexican labor and goods should be able to flow freely over the border (in a northerly direction only, of course) with complete impunity. And Sanchez's outrageous assumption that the U.S. government needs to take into account what effect FDA safety measures will have on Mexico's economy just underscores this point.

Let's also remember that since the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak was detected, upwards of 1,200 people have been infected with the virus, across 43 states, Washington, D.C., and Canada. As many as 242 have been hospitalized as a result of the infection. According to the CDC, there are usually only about 25 reported cases of this strain of salmonella per year.

Hopefully now that the source of this outbreak has been found, it will put the brakes on this latest scourge from Mexico. This incident is yet another object lesson in the dangers of allowing elements of the Third World to creep into the U.S. and endanger the health and welfare of our people. We should be shutting our southern border not only to people – but to fruits and vegetables, too.

Never picking a peck of Mexican peppers,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

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[niecy]

Hi Kritts, and thank you for addressing this issue. I do agree that something has to be done. Imports, immigrants (both legal and illegal) world travel, it's all taking it's toll.

I have read an article about the dermatologist in Texas finding 9 confirmed cases of Leishmaniasis, and it was in NorthEast Texas to boot.

I posted some time back also about Chaga's Disease, which originates in Mexico.

I have never tried to hide the fact that I strongly believe that hookworm is involved in my illness, which resembles many of yours tremendously. I have tons of information saved on hookworm.

I just googled Gnathostomiasis and found this on the CDC's website.

Thanks again!
Niecy

CDC - Gnathostomiasis: An Emerging Imported Disease

Research
Gnathostomiasis: An Emerging Imported Disease

David A.J. Moore,* Janice McCroddan,† Paron Dekumyoy,‡ and Peter L. Chiodini†
*Imperial College, London, U.K.; †Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, U.K.; and ‡Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Suggested citation for this article: Moore DAJ, McCrodden J, DeKumyoy P, Chiodini PL. Gnathostomiasis: an emerging imported disease. Emerg Infect Dis [serial online] 2003 Jun [date cited]. Available from: URL: CDC - Gnathostomiasis: An Emerging Imported Disease

As the scope of international travel expands, an increasing number of travelers are coming into contact with helminthic parasites rarely seen outside the tropics. As a result, the occurrence of Gnathostoma spinigerum infection leading to the clinical syndrome gnathostomiasis is increasing. In areas where Gnathostoma is not endemic, few clinicians are familiar with this disease. To highlight this underdiagnosed parasitic infection, we describe a case series of patients with gnathostomiasis who were treated during a 12-month period at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London.

The ease of international travel in the 21st century has resulted in persons from Europe and other western countries traveling to distant areas of the world and returning with an increasing array of parasitic infections rarely seen in more temperate zones. One example is infection with Gnathostoma spinigerum, which is acquired by eating uncooked food infected with the larval third stage of the helminth; such foods typically include fish, shrimp, crab, crayfish, frog, or chicken. Previously, most disease related to Gnathostoma was reported from Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand and Japan, because of the dietary habits of those living there. In recent years, however, gnathostomiasis has become an increasing problem in Central and South America, most notably in Mexico (perhaps related to consumption of ceviche) (1,2). In cats and dogs, which serve as important reservoirs of infection in regions where Gnathostoma is endemic (3), the ingested third-stage larva matures into the adult worm in approximately 6 months (Figure 1). However, because the larva cannot mature into the adult form in humans, the third-stage larva can only wander within the body of the host; clinical symptoms of gnathostomiasis then occur because of the inflammatory reaction provoked by these migrating larvae (Figure 2). Traditionally the disease has been divided into cutaneous and visceral forms, depending on the site of larval migration and subsequent symptoms. Another form of gnathostomiasis, which is quite rare, includes the dangerous complication of central nervous system involvement (4). This form is manifested by painful radiculopathy, which can lead to paraplegia, sometimes following an acute (eosinophilic) meningitic illness.
We describe a series of patients in whom G. spinigerum infection was diagnosed at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London; they were treated over a 12-month period. Four illustrative case histories are described in detail. This case series represents a small proportion of gnathostomiasis patients receiving medical care in the United Kingdom, in whom this uncommon parasitic infection is mostly undiagnosed.

[Kritters]

Hey Niecy,

Yesterday, I took a nap on the sofa and awoke to see on the screen of the tv my boyfriend was watching, the same long, worm-like critters I see under my scope. They are parasites someone picked up from visiting another country in the tropics, and they live under the skin. It was on the Animal Planet channel and the program was called, "Eaten Alive".

When these programs are on, I can only hope many people are seeing them so they will realize how ubiquitous these parasitic situations really are. Then, maybe the doctors will wake up, go back to school and take the parasitology 101 and nutrition 202 that wasn't on their curriculum in medical school. then, maybe doctors like the idiot infectious disease doctor I went to won't just look at someone's arm and say, "I don't know what that is (was)" and jot down DOP on her cute little chart as I'm walking out with a prescription of a soothing jell.

Guess I should have saved that for the 'venting' section, huh?

xoxo
Kritts

[niecy]

Hey Kritts,

As for the venting, this is your thread. As for the program "Eaten Alive" I have seen it a couple of times, and a friend called just last week to say they had seen the program too, so maybe people will start realizing we are not in this world alone, so to speak.

I hope you don't mind, but I found this article today and wanted to post the link. It's made by a seemingly very compassionate man, and I found his theory very intriguing.

Niecy
xoxo

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[Kritters]

Hi Niecy,

I for one, don't mind at all, thanks for posting it. I'm always open to thoughts from those who care and want to help/theorize. We will get nowhere without it. I'm so depressed today, it actually brought a tear and the treat of a unique thought process.

I would not dismiss his theory, esp. with the references to the space shuttle locations. I don't know if you remember or not, but last year I tried to tie a connection with the air force locations in Cal. Fla and Texas and wanted to know the flight patterns most commonly taken to see if it tied in with all our Morgie friends we know of, in the USA, Europe, Austrailia, etc. Come to think of it, I wonder if anyone from India or Japan or China has any Morgs cases.

Anyway, anything is possible. I wouldn't expect el governmento to fess up if they do know something ("okay, okay, ya got us")

Has anyone actually determined the composition of the fibers?

p.s. if our critter is, in fact, from outer space... I WILL NOT, I repeat WILL NOT BUY CLOTHES FROM THEIR CATALOGS!!!

NANU NANU AND MAY THE FORCE BE WITH US!

thanks again,
xoxo
Kritts

[niecy]

Originally Posted by Kritters

Hi Niecy,


p.s. if our critter is, in fact, from outer space... I WILL NOT, I repeat WILL NOT BUY CLOTHES FROM THEIR CATALOGS!!!

NANU NANU AND MAY THE FORCE BE WITH US!

thanks again,
xoxo
Kritts

I hear ya!!! Nor will I!!

I did make a post earlier this year about our shuttles having to be sterilized to enter Mars' atmosphere, but no sterilization process upon re-entry.....

I don't know anymore today than I did three years ago, that is concrete evidence as to what this disease is........I am beginning to wonder if anyone does, or if anyone even cares for that matter. Thank God for all of the wonderful people here!!!! It's like a life-line for me!!

This guy is sincere in his theory I do believe, he's not saying it's aliens, he's thinking some kind of organism may have came home with one of our shuttles, who knows, he could be right.

I still lean towards hookworm infection if anything, one that hasn't yet been identified, maybe infected with GMO's and pesticides.

Niecy
xoxoxo

[Kritters]

Yeah, Niecy....
I agree with you. crypto or myco probably. funny, I was just venting to my captive boyfriend. I said, "I'm having a martini, and I am really really really depressed right now, so if you will just sit there and listen, I'll love you forever." He did, and is coming back in a minute. He just came back and said, " this place should be called happyland" and I said, 'be with you in a minute...I'm writing to Niecy" LOL

Anywho, I'm feeing much better. Love does that, you know? Friends, boyfriends when we keep them in line LOL and people we don't even know who care.

love you girlfriend.
xxo
Kritts

[Kritters]

oh, and NIecy,
The ordinary micro-parasitic organisms ARE EXTRATERRESTRIAL as far as most of the doctors are concerned. "huh? parasites? what....from the movies? oh....I dunno...I'm off to a dinner in Hawaii the pharmaceutical industry is awarding me.... talk to you later!!!"
Know what I mean?
LOL
Kritts

[Jo]

I'd ploughed into looking at the space missions a few months ago after some comments from Marc and some random blogs I'd found.

Did you know that space is bad for microbes according to NASA?

Space: A Bad Influence on Microbes?

Makes them virulent. What concerns me is that they only realised in 2003!

I've got a whole list of organisms that they've taken into space since 19somewhen, including marine sponges in 1982! and we all know how many microbes they carry...hundreds!!

What did they do with the samples once they got them home? Let them go??

Was this the reason for the shuttle springclean Niecy?

Stay tuned for the next thrilling episode of ......."moooorrrrrggggsss in spaaaaacccee"

Night my wonderful, lovery friends

Joski xxxx