Preventing meningitis caused by parasites

[AlohaSteven]

Thanks for sharing this significant and hard-won information about your experience and that of your friend. Good to know; very useful specific suggestions, too!

Interrupting a parasite's life cycle at any point can assist in reducing the overall numbers present in a neighborhood and the local micro-environment around a home. Cutting down population numbers among any reservoir of infection can thus assist in reducing the potential hazard. Slugs & snails and their slime are a vector via which nematode larvae infect humans, but rats are the most common harbor via which slugs & snails are themselves becoming infected ...so reducing the local rat population may be useful. Rats can carry many other disease agents such as Hymenolepis nana &/or diminuta (rat tapeworms, which I have identified from fecal specimens of many infected individuals in the tropics) and ectoparasites, so there are all sorts of good reasons to discourage rats from cohabitation with the family.

CDC on the Rat Lungworm
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/...ngylus.htm

Aquatic snails (in freshwater ponds and aquaria) can also harbor A. cantonensis
http://www.fish-keeper.net/Forum/index.p...topic=1122


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