Thread: "Neurocysticercosis" NEW IMPORT

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"Neurocysticercosis" is the term for infection of the nervous
system - usually the brain - with the pork tapeworm; in the U.S.,
it is acquired by eating tapeworm eggs shed in human waste - not by
eating pork from an infected pig. It is endemic in Latin America, Africa, and Asia - but had been extremely uncommon in this country until recently; in the U.S., the main way it is transmitted is by aliens from areas where it endemic working as foodhandlers and not washing their hands when they use the restroom while at work. In non-Moslem countries in the Third World - where pork is a common food, meaning pigs commonly get infected from human waste, cysticercosis is responsible for one-third of epilepsy cases.
Most U.S. cases are in the Southwest and are among immigrants
from Third World areas where the disease is endemic. However, a
1992 Centers for Disease Control report noted that 7.3% of cases in
Los Angeles County were locally-transmitted; these patients were
native-born Americans who had never traveled to countries where the disease is common. Another CDC report, this one in July-September 1997, noted that the disease is increasingly common among Americans who have never left the U.S. The CDC notes that it is responsible for 2% of neurologic hospital admissions in Southern California., producing more than 1,000 cases yearly nationwide. In 2002, the CDC noted that
the brain-damaging worm disease caused 10% of all epilepsy cases in
Los Angeles emergency rooms.
The CDC noted that 3% of migrant farmworkers in North Carolina
who were from Central America were in the infectious stage of the
disease; that CDC report expressed particular concern about such
people working as food handlers or housekeepers - and suggested
that those in these occupations be tested for whether they were
infectious.
Showing both the typical transmission route in the U.S. - and
the risk cysticercosis poses to the general American public - the
CDC noted that food contaminated by immigrant cooks caused an
outbreak of the disease among Orthodox Jews in New York City. The fact that Orthodox Jews don't eat pork didn't prevent them from
getting the disease - nor did their distance from the Mexico
border.
A Texas Dept. of Health report in Aug. 1998 noted among
risk factors "employing a domestic worker from an endemic area" and eating food prepared by a "foodhandler with a tapeworm"; the report elsewhere explicitly blamed the increase in the disease inside the U.S. on immigration.
That Texas Dept. of Health report noted that this disease is
becoming endemic "in parts of the United States having a large
Hispanic population" and that "neurocysticercosis is a major health
problem along the United States-Mexico border."
In late May 2002, another CDC in-house medical journal article reported
transmission of the brain-damaging worm disease inside North Carolina
by infected aliens.

Lovely. I've always wondered what it would be like to live in third world country. I guess our ELECTED leaders are about to let us find out. Maybe this is their way of making us grateful to live in America. When we are all sick and dying we'll appreciate their help and leadership and just be happy to be alive.

I have your back, but I think we're outnumbered.

Trouble@PleaseMoveOn.Com

Originally Posted by Newmexican

The CDC noted that 3% of migrant farmworkers in North Carolina
who were from Central America were in the infectious stage of the
disease; that CDC report expressed particular concern about such
people working as food handlers or housekeepers - and suggested
that those in these occupations be tested for whether they were
infectious.
Showing both the typical transmission route in the U.S. - and
the risk cysticercosis poses to the general American public - the
CDC noted that food contaminated by immigrant cooks caused an
outbreak of the disease among Orthodox Jews in New York City. The
fact that Orthodox Jews don't eat pork didn't prevent them from
getting the disease - nor did their distance from the Mexico
border.

I guess that takes care of eating any fast food here in NC. This is really scary! Anybody know what the symptoms of this are?

Why is so hard for Bush and the Senate to see how illegal immigration is HURTING us? I guess one of THEIR family members will have to be hurt by something like this before they'll wake up!!

Time to start raising our own food! Oh, I forgot! They want to make us put tags on all of our animals so we due to the costs of that little project, we won't be able to afford to even do that! Looks like they are going to force disease on us through our food supply! Since we don't know what packing companies the illegals are working in, chances are this is going to be widespread soon! So nice of our Government!

Originally Posted by ohflyingone

Since we don't know what packing companies the illegals are working in, chances are this is going to be widespread soon! So nice of our Government!

OHMIGOSH, I hadn't even thought of that! I guess it doesn't matter what we do, they'll get us one way or another. Such a shame to see this happening to our great nation!

OK, I lost it on "brains" and "worms".......

Hi I am new to the forum, Everyday this stuff with these illegals just get scarier, this must be a nightmare, somebody please wake me up from this bad dream.