 The Worm
>From Wikipedia:
The dog heartworm is a negligible public health risk, because it is
unusual for humans to become infected. Additionally, human infections
usually are of little or no consequence, although rarely an infected
human may show signs of respiratory disease. In most cases, however,
the heartworm dies shortly after arriving in the human lung, and a
nodule, known as a granuloma, forms around the dead worm as it is being
killed and absorbed. If an infected person happens to have a chest
X-ray at that time, the granuloma may resemble lung cancer on the X-ray
and require a biopsy to rule out the life threatening condition. This
may well be the most significant medical consequence of human infection
by the dog heartworm.
At one time it was thought that the dog heartworm infected the human
eye, with most cases reported from the southeastern United States.
However, these cases are now known to be caused by a closely-related
parasite of raccoons, Dirofilaria tenuis. Several hundred cases of
subcutaneous (under the skin) infections in humans have been reported
in Europe, but these are almost always caused by another
closely-related parasite, Dirofilaria repens, rather than the dog
heartworm.
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That's what the govornment wants us to think. With modern medicine
diagnosis are so vauge, that the common cold can be confused with the
flu or even the onset of emphasyma or cancer. What if heartworms were
in fact a contagious disease spread from human to human through close
contact? What if heart worms were being diagnosed as cancer, when
people were actually spending too much time outside around watering
holes? Perhaps the dog strain of heart worms isn't common in humans,
but if most mamals can catch the disease then their must be a strain
that effects humans. And maybe they are keeping it secret.
The heart is our soul, and no one could stumache a heart ache this
disgusting. Not without being driven mad!
Mad!
Mad!
Mad!
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