Article about man w/rat lung disease from B.I.

[terracore]

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Originally posted by birdmove

Something wrong with that website. It's not there.

Jon in Keaau/HPP

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Try this:


https://www.slideshare.net/shainamavreen...s-handouts

[Kelena]

It was downstream of a 20, a 5 and then the 1. The five and the one were contained in one filter somehow.

[pbmaise]

If you do a Google search for...

Helminth Eggs Removal in Water Reclamation: Disc Filtration as an Effective
Barrier

You will find a pdf file that documents an extensive test on a ten micron filter. They added one of the smallest nematode eggs to the inlet water and monitored product water.

They found the particular 10 micron filter tested stopped all of the eggs.

[TomK]

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Originally posted by pbmaise

If you do a Google search for...

Helminth Eggs Removal in Water Reclamation: Disc Filtration as an Effective
Barrier

You will find a pdf file that documents an extensive test on a ten micron filter. They added one of the smallest nematode eggs to the inlet water and monitored product water.

They found the particular 10 micron filter tested stopped all of the eggs.

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Please forgive my ignorance of biology, but I thought the recent discussion was about larvae, not eggs.

[MarkP]

Short of siphoning a highly concentrated dose off of the bottom of your tank, entirely too much emphasis is being paced on catchment water. A reasonable set of filters will keep you from getting a catastrophic dose. The real risk is having one of the little ****ers sneak into the food stream.

[Carey]

Mark, unfortunately there have been severe RLW infections in Puna that were not just from the food stream...
Your statement would be true if this was just a foodborne illness, but it is not.
Even handling snails/slugs with hand cuts has been a suspected route of severe illness...

[Kelena]

It is so very hard to pinpoint the source of an RLD(W?) infection. A neighbor thinks he may have gotten it from eating a cherry tomato direct from the garden. But with so many avenues of entry, who can say. I am going back to one micron in my filter system (I thought I read that fridge filters already filter down to 1 micron but have been unable to find that again.). I refuse to eat local greens. Someone on this forum --maybe more than one-- told about seeing a slug crawling on lettuce at Malama market. It is a tragedy -- with an appropriate amount of agricultural inspectors and a quick government response when something slips through, we would be able to grow lettuce and maybe even enjoy quiet at night.

[bananahead]

Fear Mongering Kooks!

so they "wouldnt have come to Hawaii in the first place" ...if they knew..... and YOU ALL are all good w/ that??? in this f-en exaggerated fear mongering story...???
.. scare away visitors... ALL because we get under 15 cases of ratlungworm per year within our 200,000 residents and thousands of tourists... no one has died, most that get it dont know they have it....

FY f-en I! Rat Lungworm has peaked... it cant get worse, over 90% of the 500+ Rats tested in Hilo have it... idiots eat slugs on purpose, idiots dont wash their veggies... = idiots get ratlungworm! period!

try worrying about something that actually kills people in Hawaii.... Lepto kills on average one person every 3 yrs in Hawaii (33/100 yrs) ie that college kid in Waipio Valley a few yrs back...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptospirosis

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[eigoya]

Sixth identified RLW victim, another visitor to West Hawaii. Catchment water appears a less-likely cause. I believe the last victims from East Hawaii drank from a bucket of punch that was left out overnight? Two or three got sick (not sure if that was this year). Don't fall for "eat local" Local grown= !!!!!
http://bigislandnow.com/2019/07/10/6th-case-rat-lungworm-disease-confirmed-in-hawaii-island-visitor/?t=1562796113&fbclid=IwAR1LBG_n9spnPP3mHMdfLFJVs7FfyM8GDkmMUm1aKnT2o8iYJdXqmt0DtKw

[Carey]

It should be noted that K Howe, the author of the paper on the filtration study published this year, that I linked, is a researcher whose son has had RLW caused HE.... so to imply that RLW is not all that bad (after all it doesn`t KILL you), is to imply getting HE is not all that bad...
& Bananaheads assessment that RLW has peaked is not back by data, also the cases reported are not the cases that have actually contracted a mild case, they are the ones that show signs of HE &/or have had a positive spinal tap
& more to consider, canine incidence of RLW infection, including HE paralysis, is very much on the rise this last year... in part because there is blood test for canine infection, something that is missing for human infection..... for humans, spinal tap is the only definitive test currently accepted....

& a sobering reminder of the extent this disease can affect ones mind, it is best to remember that some of those with HE have committed suicide over the devastating effects....