Guinea Worm Diease (Warning with Photos)
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Dracunculiasis, more commonly known as Guinea worm disease (GWD), is a preventable infection caused by the parasite Dracunculus medinensis. Infection affects poor communities in remote parts of Africa that do not have safe water to drink.
Adult female Dracunculus worms emerge from the skin of Infected persons annually. Persons with worms protruding through the skin may enter sources of drinking water and unwittingly allow the worm to release larvae into the water. These larvae are ingested by fresh water copepods ("water fleas") where these develop into the infective stage in 10-14 days. Persons become infected by drinking water containing the water fleas harboring the infective stage larvae of Dracunculus medinensis.
Once inside the body, the stomach acid digests the water flea, but not the Guinea worm. These larvae find their way to the small intestine, where they penetrate the wall of the intestine and pass into the body cavity. During the next 10-14 months, the female Guinea worm grows to a full size adult 60-100 centimeters (2-3 feet) long and as wide as a cooked spaghetti noodle, and migrates to the site where she will emerge, usually the lower limbs.
A blister develops on the skin at the site where the worm will emerge. This blister causes a very painful burning sensation and it will eventually (within 24-72 hours) rupture. For relief, persons will immerse the affected limb into water, or may just walk in to fetch water. When someone with a Guinea worm ulcer enters the water, the adult female releases a milky white liquid containing millions of immature larvae into the water, thus contaminating the water supply. For several days after it has emerged from the ulcer, the female Guinea worm is capable of releasing more larvae whenever it comes in contact with water.
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got picture meh
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where is the pics.
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http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/Caesar95/2.jpg
Shapes of the worm underneath the skin of the leg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/Caesar95/9.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/Caesar95/6.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/Caesar95/1.jpg
http://curezone.com/image_gallery/parasites/all/006.jpg
A curiosity: some scholars have suggested (but it's only an hypothesis) that the symbol of the Rod of Asclepius once represented a worm wrapped around a rod; parasitic worms such as the "guinea worm" (Dracunculus medinensis) were common in ancient times, and were extracted from beneath the skin by winding them slowly around a stick. Physicians may have advertised this common service by posting a sign depicting a worm on a rod.
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funny, i can't see the pics.. a blessing in disguise?
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no see pics leh.
eh NPNT LAH!
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where is picture?
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the link is there, but can't see duno why..Originally posted by missqi:no see pics leh.
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I can see the pic quite clear.big and nice leh
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eh i use mojilla.Originally posted by stellazio:the link is there, but can't see duno why..
got make diff not? if i use IE? -
i using firefox. cannot see leh.
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in i.e i see all red x..
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hmmm...i dunnoe wat happen, but i have no prob looking at the pics here....well if u cant see tat's too bad then
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me too!Originally posted by stellazio:in i.e i see all red x.. -
The pictures aren't link to any image files!
He linked them directly to forum attachments... http://forum.ogrish.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=217870&d=1149113511
Edited: More like TS is signed in at the forum, but we need to login at the forum before we can see the pics? -
me 3Originally posted by missqi:me too! -
heng i not mod, if not i might do him a favour..
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tmd.Originally posted by chanff8:The pictures aren't link to any image files!
He linked them directly to forum attachments... http://forum.ogrish.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=217870&d=1149113511
want to start thread also such a farking noob!
waste my time go ie and see!
tmd!
i already say go xs.to and host let us see right!?!?!?!?!
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is it possible for u to save the pic then upload it somewhere? e.g. photobucket
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It's done...should be able to see liao
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i can see pictures clearly.
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Nope, it's great!Originally posted by dragg:i can see pictures clearly.
it sucks!!
Guinea Worm Rocks! -
more comments please
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nice...
not bad not bad...
keep it up.
i have seen even grosser pictures.
this....
