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Worms infect more poor Americans than thought
Reuters ^
| December 25, 2007
| Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
Posted on 12/25/2007 10:17:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: ashtanga
Government cheese activists, coffee shop cogitators, performance artists, alternative lifestyle facilitators and birkenstockers feel that the verities are racist and so forgo their very health, mental or otherwise.Bravo, bravo! Such fine prose. As I read the story I was pretty incredulous over the part about 'since it only affects the poor nobody cares'. As if when was the last time you saw a multi-million dollar study put forth to find a cure for gout or tennis elbow? You see any stories about big grants to cure the diseases of the rich? You even hear of a list of the diseases of the rich? How is it then that we always hear about the poor? Jesus said "The poor you have with you always", and I think the people seeking funding know it, too.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I've gotten these kind of worms before. They made me really sick too, and gave me amnesia.
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posted on
12/26/2007 8:23:10 AM PST
by
Manic_Episode
(Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"...because it only affects the poor it has been ignored," Hotez said via e-mail.The poor are NEVER a topic of conversation in this country....
</sarcasm>
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posted on
12/26/2007 8:48:21 AM PST
by
Onelifetogive
(* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"We need to begin
erasing deporting these horrific health disparities," Hotez wrote in the paper...
There...fixed it.
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posted on
12/26/2007 8:50:13 AM PST
by
Onelifetogive
(* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
To: darth
Source? In case we’d like to get some of that stuff....
Don’t know whether I’ve ever had worms or not, but the very thought makes my skin crawl.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Actually, human inflammatory bowel disease can be TREATED with doses of pig whipworms:
“...drinking a concoction containing thousands of pig worm eggs could protect people against bowel disease.
“He came up with the idea after noticing that a rise in cases of IBD coincided with a drop in infections caused by roundworms and human whipworms.
“Weinstock also noted that IBD was rare in developing countries where parasitic infections were more common.
“When he tested it twice a month on 100 patients in the United States with IBD, which includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, symptoms such as abdominal pain, bleeding and diarrhoea disappeared.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/07/1081222499772.html?from=storyrhs
To: Jack Hammer
I got my last few doses at a pharmacy in Ciudad Acuna just across the border from Del Rio, Texas.
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posted on
12/26/2007 3:21:03 PM PST
by
darth
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Worms infect more poor Americans than thought So how many poor Americans are infected with thought?
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posted on
12/26/2007 5:58:26 PM PST
by
Koblenz
(The Dem Platform, condensed: 1. Tax and Spend. 2. Cut and Run. 3. Man on Man)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Women & minorities HARDEST HIT !!
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:37:21 PM PST
by
traumer
To: NCLaw441
To: Calpernia
"My high school biology teacher was just featured on Discovery Healths, Mystery Diagnosis, for having some type of worms." I had a high school history teacher on Jeopardy a few years ago.
As far as I know she was worm free.
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posted on
12/26/2007 8:12:18 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Manic_Episode
I swear that I can smell that picture. Never again...again.
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posted on
12/26/2007 8:16:40 PM PST
by
kaboom
To: 2ndDivisionVet
More than 2 percent of adult Latinos may be infected, and with 35 million Hispanics in the United States, this could add up to tens of thousands of cases, Hotez said.Diversity is strength.
To: linn37; darth; 2ndDivisionVet; Calpernia
I have sometimes wondered if the are any type of worms or other parasites that can be in your body without making you aware of their presence.
To: Misterioso
We could just deport the worms when we discover them.At least bring them out of the shadows.
To: kittycatonline.com
You even hear of a list of the diseases of the rich?No but it sounds like a great specialty to go into.
To: Rudder
.....(Strongyloides) was then usually associated with rural elderly farmer-people, and not necessarily the poor.
Nasty little critters they are, I don't think you can ever really rid your body of them.
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posted on
12/26/2007 8:36:47 PM PST
by
WackySam
To: Koblenz
To: dbacks
Heck that might only be a few thousand people man. Do the math heh.
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posted on
12/26/2007 8:47:44 PM PST
by
enduserindy
(I might be going to hell in a bucket but.......crap.)
To: greccogirl
The childhood ditties were unspeakable and ghastly, and I went to Catholic school. They involved stalking, butchery, decay, murder, bodily functions of the earthier sort, and yet we thought them simply word games. Thank God that manners and diplomacy bloom in adulthood -for some.
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posted on
12/26/2007 11:24:58 PM PST
by
ashtanga
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