Thank-you for posting. Good Information.
Would a Diatomaceous Earth treatment or a regular de-worming help?
Or are we gonna let a few more thousand die while we come up with a multi million dollar treatment?
Ping to just a few fellow VietVets off the top of my head.
If any of you have better lists...
Then, it was the dysentery and Malaria, fungus and boils.
Next, the privilege of getting hit and all those new complexities to our lives.
After that, the fun of the homecoming and the know-it-alls.
Next, it was prostate cancer.
Now it's carcinogenic liver flukes.
Weren't we the lucky ones!
I had a good friend who served in Vietnam.
He came down with leukemia.
The VA is supposed to automatically find “service related” for Vietnam Veterans with leukemia.
The Fort Harrison, MT VBA came back with “not service related”.
He died several months ago from the leukemia.
I despise the VBA.
Thanks, blam.
Never ate fish in Vietnam, either in 68-69, or in 2000.
Thanks for posting...
Great post.. I guess the flukes were suppressed by strong immune systems until they stopped being strong. Looking into this one. Immun / parasit ping.
Blam, Thank you for posting this article.
A Ping for all who served in Vietnam regarding source of bile duct cancer.
So, how do you go about getting this test? I suspect my Kaiser GP would just give me a blank stare.
Today, many freshwater fish selections at supermarkets such as swai, pangasius and sometimes catfish are from Vietnam. Be careful if you use these as sushi.
This is good information NOT just for Viet Nam Vets, but for those of us that were in S. Korea at the time ‘66-’68. I remember the honey wells vividly as a few times I pulled over speeders for the issuance of citations, and just happened to be next to one. Stunk like ‘H’. Made us all want to puke. A few guys got away with warnings as we all hastily departed the scene to get away from the stink as fast as we legally could.
Another time a train on the tracks behind the compound/barracks at the 55th struck one of those self propelled tillers a guy had rigged to pull his honey barrel. The barracks stunk for a week, or better from the spill.
Regardless it is my understanding the parasites are in that fecal material, and it was all over the place, and in everything at the time. I’ll be bringing that up with the vet Dr. next trip in.
B.S. Like being in Vietnam caused vets to have type 2 diabetes 50 years later, yet the Vietnamese don’t have the same problem? Never mind they spent the last 50 years eating garbage and laying on the sofa watching Oprah. And don’t get me started on PTSD. If a third of PTSD cases ere real it would mean that we have the weakest cardre of soldiers of any nation ever. We diagnose and pay vets for being afraid? If they were not afraid then I would say they have a mental disorder. It is all just another ageny (Veterans Administration) trying to get more Americans to rely on the government for a paycheck.