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https://www.iheart.com/content/2021-11-05-deadly-parasite-that-enters-body-through-bare-feet-is-spreading-in-america/
A Texas community is dealing with the spread of an intestinal parasite that inhabits the guts of humans and other animals and excretes larvae during defecation.
The Guardian reports 16 residents in Rancho Vista, Texas -- located within an hour from Austin -- were notified that they were infected by Strongyloides after giving blood and stool samples to a noted university conducting a study researching the spread of the parasite.
Strongyloides -- though, at times, symptomless -- are the deadliest of soil-transmitted parasites as it's capable of multiplying throughout the body and causing death in individuals with lower immune systems.
(Read full article for more info.)
jery007
Neil Gaiman was right!
Eridianne
"Hello? Hookworms? Get in my feet! Or whatever. Some kinda worms. Will get in your feet."
UglyBassTerd
That's just what Ted Cruz's sperm looks like.
maddcovv
I’m around Austin WTF is rancho vista ? Not even google maps knows
tinydog
pazooPositivityPlayer
The penis shape is very efficient
armagetz
Risk map of Strongyloides(sp?) infection.
TwoBitGreaser
It’s enough to make you not want to walk barefoot in faeces.
Rifneno
Oh hey, I remember that one from House. Killed wheelchair guy cuz he faked taking his ivermectin. LOL.
Eadrom
He did not fake it, 13 set little cup with pills on bed table and they found it later the dog got it and ate the pills. Is why dog died too.
ErniesWidow
Texans better start giving the Invermectin to their livestock and stop hoarding it for themselves. Their animals are pooping parasites
foreverinchains
Threadworms... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongyloides_stercoralis
Silkyninja1
We call them pinworms
staceyjorgenson31415
There we go !!! Thanks ? My brain went “hook-worm” when I saw the thumbnail.
volkswagenorange
Nah, we already have those. Got them tons of times when I was a kid in Waco in the early 80s.
bigapplebaum
It's never lupus
Nathanyel
Conservative Texans are gonna walk around barefoot just to own the libs. "My feet, my choice! I won't wear these foot-prisons!"
DrKonrad
Meanwhile in Australia
awesker002
Sondersoma
Guess it's time to kick my shoes off
counterintel
bwav8
I remember my Mom (a nurse) warning me about suchlike in the 70s
BackPackJohniee
Joke's on this parasite. I'm already dead on the inside!
mjcherbert
not a new thing, Rockefeller vs Hookworm - https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/91691-sculptors-of-monumental-narrative
FlyingTigerRose
So in 2021 Apocalypse Bingo did anyone have November Deadly Parasites? (Though actually that's just another name for the GOP...)
Brockvegas
MapleSyrupMafia
Only hippies contract those.
londonosierra2000
Texas has fallen from God's grace. Whatever you're doing Texas, you're doing it wrong!!!
TheClaw3000
Might sound stupid but like.... wear shoes?
Spiderbutts
Right? There's about 7 other species that burrow into you through your feet. Going barefoot can leave you with plantar's warts too, which-
Spiderbutts
are actually, sometimes, so difficult to remove many people just resign to having one forever. A good pair of shoes does me just fine!
Spiderbutts
There is something liberating about runnin around barefoot, but I'd never do it in a city lol
sesnut
you dont want to run around with your feet in dirt and stuff with bugs and worms and animal poop?
adiving
Only when absolutely necessary. (also no, because I do not live in texas)
MissDeeMeanor
Far better this than Lyme disease that northern states have.
HandsomePenguin
So, like... how deadly?
bugcooper
yes
Orzufancylad
It isn't deadly to healthy people, but you can develop heart or kidney issues if it isn't treated.
HobbesAP
Like...two or three deadly.
Mockingbirb
More like...about tree fiddy
rickyinaustin
Yes
artistandascholar2000
Like tree fiddy deadly, to be exact.
Toastforkittens
But...I thought it was like 9.
LordNergal
Nah. 9 deadly is Apocalypse Diarrhea.
BearToof
Not terribly but it’s super gross. They have a super strange cycle where they invade your lungs, develop and then get coughed up & swallowed
BearToof
the further develop in your intestines where they then mate and eggs get dropped in the feces. YUM!
DreamingOfDistantShores
God damn, I hate parasites. They are pretty much consistently the worst, grossest, most horrifying branch of life in the world.
DreamingOfDistantShores
I mean yeah, it's part of the definition. But they're always so incredibly gruesome about it.
DubhIainn
https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/strongyloides/index.html surprisingly good resource when you're studying parasitology xD
TheSighingDutchman
Brilliant resource. As a parasitologist, I still use it all the time!
AppleJoosh
I don’t trust the CDC, ever since I heard from a random person not to trust the CDC.
HandsomePenguin
Yeah I just read the article. "Potentially deadly to those with lowered immune systems parasite" Is what the title should have said.
Apeofdeath
Like you are dead
Geo80
About 30.
TwoSeamer
We just de-wormed our camel and lama of this. Thanks to covidiots Ivermectin couldn't be found anywhere
goriman
'S. stercoralis infection is associated with fecal contamination of soil or water. Hence, it is a very rare infection in developed economies
goriman
Says Wikipedia. Texas... Makes sense...
vcgetdown
It's a town of almost entirely poor Mexican Americans. You're making fun of poor Mexicans, doesn't seem to be in that good of taste
goriman
No, I'm not making fun of anybody. Just lamenting the inability of the richest country in the world to deal.
SybstaBeast
I worked in a community in remote Australia that had this. You just take your body weight in anti paracytic pills x2 6 weeks apart. Done
SybstaBeast
Oh yeah, it's called Ivermectin, btw
onlyhalfghost
well, bad news: Texas used its supply of that for Covid-19 instead of saving it for parasites.
crazyaustrian
So if you weight 80kg, you take your body weight in pills? You take 80kgs of pills, twice?
SybstaBeast
Yeah, nah. That was a slight exaggeration. You take 1 pill per 15kg (I think, from memory)
SybstaBeast
Yeah man, it's that or be eaten by worms... ? (Jks, it's like 6 pills or something)
INeverReadTheTOS
Huh. Isn’t that the exact same parasite ivermectin is mainly used for?
perraCreator
So the COVID vaccine protect against this then, sweet! /s
coehl
Gonna be fun watching CNN try to explain why there is actually a human form of this drug now.
mjh29822
They all took it like dummies and now look
InconspicuousLampshade
Probably creating a low supply because of people using it for the wrong thing.
Trankia12
Thinkles
Nice try Satan.
majorminers
Odd!
madeejit
So they're all going to start taking constipation tablets for elephants to cure it, because..Q said so?
Orzufancylad
It sure is! Texas brought it over to make chugging Ivermectin less weird.
LaughingInTheFaceOfDanger
That would actually not surprise me.
Targe0
You do have to respect that level of commitment. /s
criablelurst
Maybe they're becoming resistant to it
wadatahmydamie
So what we do is tell conservatives that ivermectin cures the parasites. They’ll go “nice try libs, I’m wearing a mask and getting vaxxed!”
dbo3akrowdy
To be fair, it was CNN that was giving people a hard time for using ivermectin
wadatahmydamie
Yeah, they’ll do that. They’re a news organization after all
graehall
Haha, beat me to it. I was going to say "So we'll see the right wing reject Ivermectin and get a COVID vaccine to fight this parasite"
Someshithead241
Nah, they'll take it as a success and say "See, we told you it works."
wadatahmydamie
They’re kinda doing it now - they’ve taken to calling it a “Nobel Prize-winning medicine.”
Peacht3a
Got em
DoYouWantAntsBecauseThatsHowYouGetAnts
It's the perfect plan!
AninOnin
They'll probably just put mosquito dunks up their assholes.
DaveSamsonite
Might be a good reason to wear shoes outside? I wear crocs even when I am at the beach because of bad bites in the past. Search greenheads
invaderjay87
What do you think the chances are that these people gave themselves the parasite so they could get a prescription to ivermectin?
DreamingOfDistantShores
Owning the libs one gut parasite at a time.
HarryPotter918
Yes. There’s an episode of House where the tall rude intern from Bones dies of this.
LordNergal
That's where I got the idea from. If they want to use Ivermectin, I'll infest Texas with the parasite.
magitek
Thanks, Papa Nurgle!
ColClone54
You can't fool us with that lie about bringing in paraites. Abbott and Cruz were already there.
RoyalWithChz
Fucking Christ. Life is like a horrible fucking sitcom
Strategicgnomer
Good thing Texas has so many ivermectin users.
Webbegong
Yep, Ivermectin is generally a good choice for most nematode infections. Similar to how Praziquantal is typical for flatworms.
AmArschdieRaeuber
Ivermectin works. Not for covid though. At least there is no real evidence for that.
Webbegong
Yeah, but when people are so uneducated they don't know the difference between worms and viruses that's what you end up with.
ButtTrumpett
You’re a nematode
Webbegong
*rapidly undulates using unsegmented longitudinal muscles* How'd you know?
jansenart
Ivermectin is for all parasites, both internal and external (lice, scabies.) NOT viruses.
Virus322
Is it because the effective agent in ivermectin attacks the central nervous system which viruses do not have?
avet01
There's some effect against viral replication, but at doses that not easily achievable in humans
Slippaterunderthecovers
And covidiots too!!!
juxtjCandyBaroness
Not tape worms and some mites and lice verities are not killed
manulofdoom
worms, lice, scabies, trumpists
QuindecimT
Yeaaaahh I’d just kill myself if that happened to me. I have an irrational fear of parasites and this is “no-thanks” territory
WhistlePig
My coworker went to the Amazon and came back with a grub in her elbow after being bitten by a mosquito. She squeezed it one day and it...
WhistlePig
Shot out of her elbow, hitting the ceiling in the office. Truly disgusting
swanglemydangle
You probably have them and don't know. A large percent of healthy people have parasites in their digestive system.
IAmDrBanner
Sounds extreme for something you can solve with 2 pills and within 5 days.
AninOnin
Phobias are pretty extreme. I'm guessing they're using the term correctly, and they really are parasite-phobic
nanyatenyaa
If it makes you feel better, when healthy and hygienic, you have millions of bacteria in a delicate balance all your skin. Your flora.
nanyatenyaa
You're a walking cesspool you animal, just like the rest of us.
DreamingOfDistantShores
Right there with you, friend. Parasites are my 'don't think about it' thing. I know all about the flora and fauna of the human body, but
DreamingOfDistantShores
I am used to ignoring that information. External parasitic infections are always so horrifying in their life cycles and shit. Gah.
Totallyscrewedinaustin
You don't even want to know about the mites having sex on your face. Or the E. coli that live in your gut helping you digest food...
feryooday
Like the ones on your eyelashes?
Nocturnis
Bacteria: ok. Any sort of parasite I could SEE?? Big no
Cucumberflant
Yeah but those guys are like, spider-chillin'-in-the-corner tier. I don't see 'em and they don't harm me, aight y'all can do your thing.
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Or, hear me out, you take a pill and then 2 days later you take another pill and -BAM- you just fucking murdered those nasty parasites
Iwilltryandmakeajokeofit
Don't rob the poor man of his chance to die.
PineappleLoopsBroether
That guy’s like “nopetoolate” **BZZZZTTT**
Splosions
Yup, Growing up, nearly every kid I knew took pinworm meds once or twice.
RevolutionOnHerLips
I've always wanted to commit genocide and then shit out my enemies
HedonistBeard
You do that every time you take an antibiotic.
cuddlesdotgif
Incredibly strange flex but I’ll absolutely allow it.
livefreenburkhard
When you kill anyone, make sure to eat their heart to gain their courage, their rich tasty courage.
Alexsis0
But if they're already inside you, do you already have that tasty courage by default? Hmm..