“In the United States, trichinellosis cases are reported to CDC much less commonly now than in the past. During the late 1940s, when the U.S. Public Health Service began counting cases of trichinellosis, 400 cases in the United States were recorded each year on average. During 2008-2010, 20 cases were reported to CDC each year on average.” [1] During 1835, Jim Paget and Richard Owen were first to discover larvae of Trichinella in a human muscle during an autopsy. Mr. Paget collected some of the tissue so he could observe the roundworm more closely and he ended up reporting it to the zoological society in London about his findings of a new parasite. Trichinosis is also known as trichinellosis. It’s a roundworm infection that uses a host body to reproduce and live. It occurs when animals and humans eat infected raw or undercooked meat. When someone ingests the infected meat, the larvae mature into adult worms that are in the intestine throughout several weeks. Then the adult worms start producing larvae and they travel through various tissues and muscles. It can infect and damage body tissues. “For humans, undercooked or raw pork and pork products, such as pork sausage, has been the meat …show more content…
Most mild cases are assumed to be the flu. However, for someone who does experience the symptoms, the first symptoms are gastrointestinal and they usually occur 1-2 days after someone consumes a trichinella infected animal undercooked or raw, and these symptoms are nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Within two weeks after eating contaminated meat, you can have muscle pain, fever, chills, headache, itchy skin, weakness, swelling of the face, along with a cough, diarrhea and constipation. Treatment should start as soon as it’s diagnosed and usually depends on the symptoms. There are effective prescription drugs that are safe that can treat the symptoms and infection, it’s also easy to
The exposure to the contaminated food happened during the Memorial Day service celebration, which was May 30th. According to the case study, onset of symptoms occurred from June 5th to June 28th. Therefore, the incubation period from this case ranged from seven days to thirty days. According to Heymann (2014), the incubation period for Typhoid fever ranges from 3 days to over 60 days, with the usual range from eight to fourteen days. A graph of the incubation period is provided in Figure
Diagnosis of salmonellosis involves testing a sample of stool, as well as isolation from samples of tissue, blood, or urine. Since it is commonly mistaken for the flu and involves similar symptoms to other illnesses, the method of diagnosis for salmonellosis is pretty hard to come by. Most people with salmonellosis don’t seek treatment, so they’re never aware that they even had it. Since it is a foodborne pathogen, has a common route of infection via oral ingestion, and is found in food products that we consume on a daily
The last time Typhus was recorded was by the British Troops during World War II. They had forty two cases of Typhus in 1942 and that was one year after the allied forces arrived. Then the year after that there was five hundred and eighty two cases of Typhus...
two hundred million people suffer world wide from Schistosomiasis. It is often misdiagnosed as Typhoid Fever. It is also found in mammals such as cattle and water buffalo.
“Plague Fact Sheet.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Department of Health and Human Services. 30 March, 2005. 26 July, 2006. .
Abstract: Salmonella is a bacterium that causes one of the most common intestinal infections in the United States - Salmonellosis. The chance of contracting this disease is significantly high, and more and more people are suffering from the symptoms and complications of Salmonella. This paper will discuss about the disease itself, the current outbreaks that are related to this disease, preventions and the treatments.
“Legionnaires’ disease is a bacterial infection caused primarily by the species Legionella pneumophila, it was initially recognized as the cause of a 1976 outbreak of respiratory disease outbreak in Philadelphia. Legionellosis infection occurs after persons have breathed mists that come from a water source. The most recent outbreak of Legionnaires’disease is in New York City, in the Bronx, with a total of ten deaths and more than one hundred outbreaks, which were traced to a cooling tower, deaths have also been reported in Michigan, and Ohio.
Necrotizing Fasciitis (flesh eating bacteria ) from an essay by Katrina Tram Duong, edited by S.N. Carson M.D.
This disease may be on the brink of being eradicated entirely but that doesn’t stop it from being one of the grossest things that anyone has ever seen. The parasite enters the body via unsafe drinking water. When people drink water infected with water fleas that have have been hosting the larvae of the parasite. There are no symptoms, to begin with, but about one year later, blisters on the feet or legs begin to develop and then the adult fully developed worm crawls out of the host body over a period of a few weeks. It’s said that the pain is intense and can incapacitate a person for weeks at a time. The pain can also continue for months after the infection. The parasite needs to infect a person at least once a year in order to continue. There were an estimated 3.5 million cases in 1986 but the disease has been greatly reduced over time and only 22 cases were reported in 2015. This disease will probably be the first parasitic disease to be completely eradicated in humans.
“Salmonella Food Poisoning .” Health A to Z. 14 Aug. 2006. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 19 July 2008 .
Without treatment the affected cattle may die in three to ten days and even so the mortality rate it sixty percent. In order to treat these animals they must be tranquilized. Penicillin or another antibiotic must be administered to halt bacterial multiplication and production on toxins. (Thomas et. al, 2009) Since the animals muscles will be in spasm and very rigid they will be unable to eat or drink, treatment must also include means of supportive care. This may be accomplished by giving intravenous fluids or force feeding via stomach tube. The supportive treatment must be maintained until the signs of muscle spasms have diminished and the animal regains control over its body. This may take as long as one to four weeks. (Thomas et. al, 2009)
Infections from Toxoplasma gondii are found in many human beings and animals used as a food source. All mammals and birds that are eaten by humans can function as intermediate hosts for T. gondii and therefore could potentially be the area of infection for humans. Many of the major sources of foodborne transmission to humans come from undercooked meat, mainly pork, wild game, and lamb containing tissue cysts. Other sources of T. gondii come from soil that has been contaminated with cat feces on raw fruits, vegetables and in water that contains the oocysts. There has been an increased interest from consumers
You can also get salmonella poisoning from meat. People think that the problems come from eating red meat and are opting for fish over steak, but new evidence proves that fish can cause health problems too, risks that can’t be cooked away. This is a growing problem called histamine poisoning (Peck). Children are learning at a younger age that they don’t like meat, maybe because they don’t like the taste, or maybe it’s because they have a fear of eating their favorite cartoon or movie hero. For example, the pig from the movie “babe”.
The reproductive system was mainly located towards the anal area and inferior to the stomach. The penis was located in the middle. It was white in color and looked like a mealworm. The seminal vesicles were located on both sides of the penis. They were grayish pink in color and looked like walnuts.
Gillespie, S. H. (2001). Echinococcosis. Principles and practice of clinical parasitology (p. 585). Chichester: Wiley.