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| 387.1 | | DSSDEV::TPMARY::TAMIR | DECforms Roadie | Mon Sep 14 1992 13:28 | 5 |
| Depends on the type of worms. Ringworm is a fungus that shows up as skin
lesions. Tapeworm causes ravenous appetite and copious BMs. Roundworm shows
up just like it does in your cats......
Gross......
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| 387.2 | do yoy mean ringworm? | GEMVAX::BOOTHROYD | Don't mess with Texas! | Mon Sep 14 1992 13:28 | 12 |
| ringworm
according to my vet you can catch ringworm because i told him i
had it and he determined that my cat george had generously given it to
me as an early holiday present!!
some anitfungal cream cleared the problem right up. it wasn't funny when
my fiance caught it as well. i don't remember feeling sluggish or ill
from it but i do know we had some montrous, scaly,reddish, round patches
on our bodies!
/gail
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| 387.3 | all of those? | GEMVAX::BOOTHROYD | Don't mess with Texas! | Mon Sep 14 1992 13:30 | 8 |
| >Depends on the type of worms. Ringworm is a fungus that shows up as
>skin lesions. Tapeworm causes ravenous appetite and copious BMs.
>Roundworm shows up just like it does in your cats......
can you catch ALL of those from a cat?? i was under the impression
that ringworm was it!
/g.
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| 387.4 | | DSSDEV::TPMARY::TAMIR | DECforms Roadie | Mon Sep 14 1992 13:32 | 4 |
| From what I understand, only ringworm is contagious. And it's highly
contagious as it's an airborne fungus....
Mary
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| 387.5 | roundworms.... | ERLANG::FALLON | Karen Fallon "Moonsta Cattery" | Mon Sep 14 1992 13:57 | 5 |
| I suppose I should have been more specific.... Roundworms! God the
thought just MAKES me sick! I am clean and careful, but you always
think about the worst case probabilities. Do you really think you
would start to throw up the darn things?... I would just DIE!
8<[
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| 387.6 | | ERLANG::FALLON | Karen Fallon "Moonsta Cattery" | Wed Sep 16 1992 07:42 | 6 |
| If anyone cares to know... I asked the Dr. yesterday about this and he
said you would have a very sick feeling stomach and probably stomach
pain. He proceeded to tell me several stories, yuch! The bottom line
is if you wash your hands and keep things clean and disinfected you
should have no problem. Same as anything else!
Karen
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| 387.7 | worms and people | PROXY::HUTCHESON | the revolution will not be televised | Wed Sep 16 1992 08:35 | 11 |
| In Barbara Tuchman's "Stillwell and the American Experience in
China", Gen. Stillwell got worms (several times I think). He
was notorious for living/eating as the peasants did, but that
is how he came to understand the Chinese so well. He ultimately
died of stomach cancer.
Lunchtime!
Susan
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| 387.8 | Fact or fiction???? | STUDIO::PELUSO | PAINTS; color your corral | Wed Sep 16 1992 11:43 | 9 |
| When I was in 7th grade a nun told the class a story about a friend who
was also a nun, who traveled extensively throughout Europe. This nun
ended up w/ a tape worm, and she loved it because she could eat and
eat and never get fat! she knew she had it because she see pieces of
it when she went to the bathroom (grooooosssss!!!!). When she returned
home she got it taken care of.
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| 387.9 | Did anyone else read this? | BUSY::MANDILE | Low pay, long hours, NO chance for advancement | Wed Sep 16 1992 12:56 | 14 |
| I remember reading a story (Reader's Digest?) about a little girl
who had died, and the parents were suing the doctor for misdiagnosis.
The child lived in N.E. and was having symptoms that were hard to
pinpoint/diagnose the cause. Repeat trips to the doctor brought
no results for the fevers, lethargy, etc. etc. Then the child died.
Come to find out, that the Mother's sister and child had come to
visit from the south (N.C. or someplace). There is a form of parisite
that is transfered from feces, that (I think) the child living in
the environment becomes immune to. However, this child being in
N.E. must have been infected by the other child - playing in the
sandbox together/baby from south wore diapers - and the parisite (
some type of worm) eventually infects the brain and causes death....
Lynne
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| 387.10 | | STUDIO::PELUSO | PAINTS; color your corral | Thu Sep 17 1992 13:45 | 3 |
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I saw it lynne.....ick!
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| 387.11 | Hookworm? | ROCKS::LMCDONALD | | Fri Sep 18 1992 04:48 | 11 |
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I did not read the Reader's Digest story, but I think what you are
referring to is hookworm which is very prevalent in the south. I don't
know much about it but will look it up tonight. I do know that most
people (children) get it through the soles of their feet when going
barefoot. I grew up in Texas and went barefoot all summers until I was
about 6 or so. I don't know of anyone who ever got hookworm; maybe you
*can* develop an immunity.
LaDonna
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