RE: Eurgggh! Cyclops infestation!

[Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>]

Cool summary.  I like it!!

They are gross.   It took me almost 8 years after Parasitology in medical 
school before I would travel to Africa, and still I won't get into the 
water.  How I would love to Dive Lake Tanganyika though.  

I still won't eat sushi after the whole worms in raw fish though.  :)  

(for all of you that do, as long as it is deep water fish, and prepared 
well it is okay.  In France though, high rates of worms...avoid it there 
at all costs).  Of course if concerned about it, hit the CDC website, or 
ask your doctor.  :)

Kathy



On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Charter wrote:

> I tried to concoct a mental scenario where cyclops arrived in my tanks from 
> Africa.  (Although I could see something hitchhiking in on a wild-caught 
> batch of Cardinal tetras from South America).  But to my knowledge, 
> tropical fish aren't being imported to America from Africa, Yemen, or "a 
> few remote villages in the Rajastan desert of India" (according to the CDC).
> 
> It's nice to hear some good news every once in a while: thanks to a 
> multinational effort involving the CDC, the World Bank, the Carter Center, 
> and local politicians, global Guinea worm infection rates in 1999 were only 
> 4% of the rate reported in 1984, despite more comprehensive 
> reporting.  Apparently they launched a campaign, enlisting the aid of 
> volunteers in each village to spread the word, successfully convincing 
> people to filter their drinking water through cloth filters, and to keep 
> worm ulcers out of water to prevent the worms from spawning.
> 
> A 96% drop in infection rates over 15 years is particularly remarkable when 
> you consider that the campaign was based around changing people's behavior 
> (as opposed to, say, giving them a vaccination).  Kind of gives a person hope.
> 
>   - Erika
> 
> At 06:30 PM 3/4/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> >Yip,
> >No problems with the Guinea worms in the US that I have heard of.  Only in
> >Africa.
> >
> >Kathy
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Sanford, Dave   LHS-STAFF wrote:
> >
> > > Many people value cyclops as a fry food. I get many of them from my 
> > > daphina
> > > pond. I really doubt that N.Am cyclops (or European) are carrying Guinea
> > > worm.  Kathy any imput on this??
> > > I wouldn't worry about it, just let the babies eat them.
> > > Any chance of getting a start of Glossadelphus from you at the meeting 
> > > next
> > > week?
> > > dave
> > >
>