Expert Says Worms and Parasites Drain U.S. Poor
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Diseases caused by worms and parasites are draining the health and energy of the poorest Americans, an expert said on Tuesday.
And diseases associated with the developing world, such as dengue fever and Chagas disease, may become a bigger problem for the United States as the climate changes, said Dr. Peter Hotez of George Washington University and the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington.
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“Throughout the American South during the early twentieth century, malaria combined with hookworm infection and pellagra (a vitamin deficiency) to produce a generation of anemic, weak, and unproductive children and adults,” Hotez wrote.
The parasitic diseases are having similar effects now, he said.
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“These diseases occur predominantly in people of color living in the Mississippi Delta and elsewhere in the American South, in disadvantaged urban areas, and in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, as well as in certain immigrant populations and disadvantaged white populations living in Appalachia,” he wrote.
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DOG DROPPINGS
Toxocariasis, a roundworm parasite transmitted in dog droppings, infected up 2.8 million poor black children living in inner cities, the South and Appalachia, Hotez said. {snip}
Strongyloidiasis is caused by a threadworm that lives throughout the body and infects 68,000 to 100,000 people. {snip}
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One threat to babies is cytomegalovirus, which infects 27,002 newborn annually, causing deafness and mental retardation.
“It’s amazing what we tolerate,” Hotez said. He noted the United States spends $1 billion a year preparing for outbreaks of diseases that have not occurred, including smallpox, anthrax and avian influenza.
“But these (other) diseases are occurring among voiceless people,” he said. “It’s an unintended form of racism in a sense. We need to make these disease household words.”
Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, infects as many as 8 to 11 million people in Latin America and may become a U.S. threat, Hotez said. {snip}
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(Posted on June 25, 2008)
Comments
When I worked as a medical parasitologist It was rather boring due to the lack of Divesity in the diseases I would find.So thanks to third world immigration things shall become more interesting for people like me.
Posted by Tony Soprano at 6:51 PM on June 25
This has little to do with native born Americans. These parasites are coming from south of the border. In the past poor Americans lived in conditions worse than today. This is a farce to blame poverty for an alien problem
Posted by mike t. at 6:54 PM on June 25
“But these (other) diseases are occurring among voiceless people,” he said. “It’s an unintended form of racism in a sense.”
If any proof were wanting that every last aspect of life in America has been thoroughly corrupted by leftist politics and that the word “racism” is nothing more than a meaningless noise employed in that politicization, here it is.
Posted by Cassiodorus at 8:08 PM on June 25
“It’s amazing what we tolerate,” Hotez said.
Yes, it certainly is.
Posted by at 8:20 PM on June 25
Like I read here sometime back, “Our parasites have parasites.”
“It’s an unintended form of racism in a sense. We need to make these disease household words.”-above quote
I prefer to just steer clear of these “victims.” No extra vocabulary needed.
Posted by Jeremy Douglas at 8:51 PM on June 25
There are large numbers of poor people in the USA. Consider that poverty in the United States is cyclical in nature with roughly 12% to 15% living below the federal poverty line at any given point in time, and roughly 40% falling below the poverty line at some time within a 10 year time span. That doesn’t count the 20,000,000 illegals roaming the country.
Seems instead of letting them all fester in their squalid poverty running afoul of the justice system that it would be better to end illegal immigration and put them to work.
Posted by Unemployed WASP at 10:04 PM on June 25
“It’s amazing what we tolerate,”
I read about these ‘code words’, and I’m wondering if that’s what’s going on here. What are they really talking about? Diseases, worms, parasites; draining America’s health? Are these words being used here to represent something else?
Humor. Off.
Posted by at 10:24 PM on June 25
Parasites affecting the poor underclass is now our blame and ‘responsibility’?
It’s the mind altering parasites of the MSM that should concern us, more than any other kind.
Posted by Zeke at 10:31 PM on June 25
From the article;
“But these (other) diseases are occurring among voiceless people,” he said. “It’s an unintended form of racism in a sense. We need to make these disease household words.”
No Mr. Hotez, racism isn’t to blame. The real blame lies on the filthy, slovenly living conditions of the people who carry these parasites.
If Mr. Hotez wants to spend public money ridding this country of parasites, let’s start by sending all the Mexican and South American immigrants back to their native countries. They are the worst kind of parasites that are infecting this country.
Posted by White And Proud at 12:10 AM on June 26
“These diseases occur predominantly in people of color living in the Mississippi Delta…(etc., etc.)…and disadvantaged white populations living in Appalachia,…It’s an unintended form of racism…”
He may be a smart doctor, but like most people, he’s a racial moron.
Indigenous peoples in Latin America and their leftist champions here also like to call the despoiling of indigenous lands by mineral companies “racism,” even though mountaintop removal for coal wreaks the same havoc on whites in Appalachia.
No proclamation or exhortation is complete now without the word “racism.”
Posted by H. Dumpty at 12:39 AM on June 26
These damned 3rd world foreigners brought all of this disease here, and the media covers it up like it’s normal. When bed bugs showed up in hotels in the 90s, the media said that bed bugs had become immune to our efforts to destroy them. All of these diseases come from 3rd world living conditions and always have. Victorian Americans weren’t exposed to these kind of illnesses when only Europeans were migrating here because even they were subject to strict medical examinations. The Lazarettos existed for a reason! Today, these africans, hispanics and asians who enter the US willy nilly are the culprits. Check out the rates of how parasitic diseases occur historically in the 3rd world on any medical site on the web.
Posted by Margaret Callahan, RN at 12:43 AM on June 26
Note that these things have not been a problem, not even in the south where I live, until this huge influx of 3rd worlders. And by 3rd worlders I don’t even mean the Mexicans I mean people from Sub Sahara Africa, India, Bangladesh and such. Apparently all of the money spent by various churches in the Africas and South and Central Americas should have been spent on medical facilities instead of spreading the word of GOD because NOW those poor people are up here SPREADING their stuff in the U.S. and it is NOT the word of god.
Posted by Skip at 12:54 AM on June 26
“Experts in the United States estimate that about 20% of dogs pass Toxocara eggs into their stool. In Great Britain, 24% of soil samples taken from public parks contained the eggs. “
This should be addressed.
“Toxocariasis, a roundworm parasite transmitted in dog droppings, infected up 2.8 million poor black children living in inner cities, the South and Appalachia, Hotez said.”
Posted by at 3:06 AM on June 26
I vote for FREE TRANSPORTATION back to ancestal Africa for “people of color” living in the Mississippi Delta and elsewhere in the American South (North, East and West). Said one-way transportation paid for by American taxpayers.
I mean I sure would not want to be accused of deliberate or overt racism because these parasites are infected by parasites. I could not agree more with the poster who suggested the term “racism” has become nothing but meaningless noise bleated by politicians and media hacks alike.
Posted by Fed Up at 7:34 AM on June 26
At leat 15 years ago, I went for a TB test in Northern California because the Ford Foundation had subsidized tens of thousands of third world Latinos to enter my immediate surroundings, and I had developed a terrible cough that wouldn’t quit. I didn’t have TB, but was told by the nurse that the real problem here was intestinal parasites (this is a once very homogeeous, high-end population), and that I wouldn’t believe what they see. The biggest problems is FOOD SERVICE, FOOD PREP, and now of course, imported food or food/meat handled by foreign workers in the fields and beyond. The best possible reason to know your food sources, and grow your own! And not patronize restaurants that obviously use foreign workers. I am encouraging everyone to grow vegetables and fruits, and trade with friends.
Posted by Baloo at 10:34 AM on June 26
I read some info a while back that blacks have more of a chance for picking up various parasites, due to their many years in Africa where the population passed along the parasitic infestation from one person to another throughout history, due to unsanitary living conditions and black lack of immunity to infection, which besets them, for the most part, today, throughout black communities across the country.
I think screening should be set up, not only in the schools, but the jails, prisons, and work sites, requiring all blacks to be screened so they can’t pass anything along to white people, because blacks, in general, have unsanitary living habits and are probably infected.
Posted by q at 11:38 AM on June 26
How about if these people made the effort most do to not live in contact with dog droppings. No, I guess that’s just too easy.
Posted by dave at 1:37 PM on June 26
In a “healthy/unhealthy” food article on today’s MSN, a point was raised respective to vegetables… that many food workers do NOT practice good hygiene. Now consider that MOST food workers happen to be Mexicans (also known as illegal immigrants). Draw your own conclusion about that restaurant you were planning to eat at this weekend.
Posted by Fed Up at 5:44 PM on June 26
It reminds me of the blacks who perennially fall for various scams at tax time, such as paying phony preparers hundreds of dollars to claim “slavery reparation credits” on their 1040s. They’re always so surprised when the IRS lands on them like the proverbial ton of bricks. I call that “looters getting looted,” and it always gives me a big laugh. There’s no better form of justice than the poetic kind.
Posted by Strider at 6:47 PM on June 26
Did anyone ever figure out the problem with the tomatoes that were causing people to be ill? I don’t think that “wild pigs” (the alleged problem with the tainted spinache some months ago)excuse can be used again…
Posted by at 8:28 PM on June 26
Baloo:
Good advice! I’ve started growing my own vegetables & herbs. People ask why, and I tell them 1) skyrocketing prices and 2) a vulnerable food supply. They look at me like I’m paranoid and in my mind I just think, “Yeah, enjoy the worms…”
Posted by at 11:14 PM on June 26
I had a hookworm infection for a long time apparently. You take a few pills, you see some wiggly white worms a while later, and then you feel WAY less tired. I don’t have the faintest idea how I got it, but I’m about as finicky and sanitary of a guy around. I guess anyone can get it. I wish I would have saved the damn worms now because afterwards docs kept telling me that I never had it. But I’ve never seen white wiggly worms in the bowl before, esp after taking an antiparasitical.
Posted by Robert Lindsay at 10:10 AM on July 1