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Water Dwelling Monsters

The Lung Fluke (otherwise known as Paragonimus Westermani has
infected millions of people all across Africa, Asia, Central and south
America. The Lung Fluke is especially dangerous because although its
name says it stays in the lungs, it does not always do so. Once in a
while a Lung Fluke will find its way into the brain, the spinal cord, or
even the heart. These tiny
flat monsters are a little
bit bigger than a dime
when they are full grown,
which is how they are able
to make their way into the
tight spaces in our bodies.
To be infected by these

Dramatic drum roll please.... Giant Roundworm!!! (Ascaris

Lumbricoides) This giant round worm is hard to classify in my little
website here because the giant roundworm makes its way into the
human body through water, food, dirty hands, and other
contaminated (with infect human feces) objects. If it comes in to
contact with your mouth it could infect you! Yes, YOU! This round
worm is found in tropical and subtropical areas, and in areas of poor
sanitation and places where they use human feces as fertilizer. When
these parasites start their journey as eggs they are swallowed and once
they reach the intestines they break through the walls and travel
through the blood where they reach the lungs and stay there for a few
weeks where it matures. Once they reach adult hood they are coughed
up and swallowed once again to go back to the intestines where they

lovely little flukes, the

most common way is to eat

attach themselves and are now ready to mate. They can live up to two
years and during that time a female roundworm can have up to
200,000 eggs a day.
(Parasites in
humans.com) Unfertilized
eggs are not infectious, but
what makes these round
worms so tough is their
resistance to chemicals, rough
and extreme conditions and
temperatures. These worms
can hide out in the body and
give no indication of
themselves even being there
if their numbers are low. But once they have so many huge families
inside a person you will start to have symptoms. These symptoms
include diarrhea, fever, nausea, vomiting, and weakness, but when
they move through the lungs they cause difficulty breathing, coughing
or coughing up blood, and eosinophilic pneumonitis. (CDC) To rid
yourself of these creatures doctors usually prescribe ascaricides,
some common drugs are albendazole, ivermectin, nitazoxanide, and
mebendazole and it takes about three days to kill all the freeloaders.
So to avoid these dependent buggers wash your hands before eating,
and very often to stay clean, wash, freeze, peal, or thoroughly cook
your food before you eat it, and avoid touching soil that has been or
might be contaminated with human feces.

an infected sea creature that was not fully cooked. Their first host of
choice is usually a snail and when they grow into a little bit bigger
babies they venture into fresh water to find a crayfish or crab to infect
the muscle of the animal (Diagnose me). Then they wait it out until a
bigger creature (such as ourselves) decides to eat the lovely animal
without first preparing it for our safety.
To diagnose that it is so a lung fluke, the symptoms include heavy
coughing (sometimes with blood) and pain. When you go to the
doctor, they will look at the slime from your lungs to see if you have
any lung fluke eggs, and they can also take X-rays and biopsies to
check as well. After being diagnosed, you simply receive a medication
and you will be fine. It's recommended that you cook your food all the
way through, or try freezing it for a few days to a few weeks (parasites
in humans).

Schistosoma - Blood
Flukes (I like to call them
Vampire flukes) are flukes
that live in water and can
reproduce asexually until
the sense human skin is
nearby, and then they
attach themselves with
their suckers and find a

hair follicle or a cut to

The Liver Fluke (or Fasciola

enter the body. When they

enter the body they so

Hepatica) is a pretty shady

creature. To follow a liver fluke

something I find very

surprising, they weasel

through its life cycle, it starts in

the infected poop of a human,

their way into the skin,

and leave their tails
outside of the human,
never to see their tails
again.They then hang out
in the skin for a few days
to build up some strength
(losing a tail causes some
serious PTSD) until they
get into the blood stream.
(parasites in humans.com)
Once inside they have a
goal in mind. They get to a
vein that they particularly
like, and then they find a mate and follow each other down to rectal or
mesenteric veins to attach themselves to the walls of the veins and call
that home for years. Females can have as many as 300-3,000 eggs per
day depending on the species. They are then flushed out (or

and if it touches water, it then

hatches to seek out a snail in
the freshwater to infect. (List
of Parasites/Wikipedia.com) Once inside the snail it grows to a second
stage larva, and then leaves the snail to swim on its own to find a
freshwater plant to infect and form a cyst. For the poor person who
eats this cyst, it then makes its way to the liver and stays there for
several weeks eating away at the liver before moving on toward the
bile duct to form into adults (3cm long and 1cm wide) and set their
eggs free to start a life of their own. Females are the proud mothers of
25,000 eggs per day. If you happen to be infected by these buggers,
then you will have the following symptoms; diarrhea, eosinophila
(high number of white blood cells), fever, nausea, stomach ache, and
vomiting. This fluke is found in farms or places that raise cattle and
sheep (in case you wanted to avoid them). They can be treated with
the drug triclabendazole so that you will be happily ever after! (CDC)

accidentally find their way into organ to cause inflammation) through

the feces or urine. The symptoms for these flukes start within the first
few days of infection and consist of a rash or itching. About two
months later you will start having chills, a cough, diarrhea, fatigue,
fever, and occasionally muscle aches. After years of having these
flukes, the risk increases because if the eggs wind up in the spinal cord
or the brain then you can experience paralysis, seizures, or
inflammation of the spinal cord. To treat this fluke it is usually
recommended to take oxamniquine or praziquantel depending on the
specific kind of blood fluke. Blood flukes are found in all the
freshwater in sub-Saharan and southern Africa, along with the Nile
river valley in Egypt, the Caribbean (Antigua, Dominican Republic,
Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, and Saint Lucia), South
America (Brazil, Suriname, Venezuela), Southern Chine, Southeast
Asia (Cambodia, Central Indonesia, Laos, Mekong delta, Philippines),
and the Middle East (Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen). If you are
in any of those areas avoid freshwater lakes, rivers or streams. If you
dry off with a towel after you swim you might be able to wipe off some
of the larvae. Safe Swimming! (CDC)

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