The Wondrous World of Parasites - Beware icky pix!

Guybrush · 05-04-2009, 07:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Veridical Fiction

I could be wrong, but I was going off of this:
(sourced from the wiki article)
"On August 26, 2008, MSNBC reported that Dede had returned home following surgery to remove thirteen pounds (5.8 kilo) of warts from his body.[13] In all, 95% of the warts were removed. [13] The surgery was documented by the Discovery Channel and TLC in the episode "Treeman: Search for the Cure."

Hehe, sorry about all the nitpicking

What you have there is a quote from MSNBC, though. The article itself says that :

"Clinical diagnostic features are lifelong eruption of pityriasis versicolor-like macules, flat wart-like papules and development of cutaneous carcinomas. Patients present with flat, slightly scaly, red-brown macules on the face, neck and body, or verruca-like papillomatous lesions, seborrheic keratosis-like lesions, and pinkish-red plane papules on the hands, upper and lower extremities, and face. The benign form of EV presents with only flat, wart-like lesions over the body, whereas the malignant form shows a higher rate of polymorphic skin lesions and development of multiple cutaneous tumors."

In other words, it describes it as wart-like papules and so on. "Real" warts are caused by viruses, but Dede's condition was caused by something else.

Freebase Dali · 05-04-2009, 07:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by toretorden

Hehe, sorry about all the nitpicking

What you have there is a quote from MSNBC, though. The article itself says that :

"Clinical diagnostic features are lifelong eruption of pityriasis versicolor-like macules, flat wart-like papules and development of cutaneous carcinomas. Patients present with flat, slightly scaly, red-brown macules on the face, neck and body, or verruca-like papillomatous lesions, seborrheic keratosis-like lesions, and pinkish-red plane papules on the hands, upper and lower extremities, and face. The benign form of EV presents with only flat, wart-like lesions over the body, whereas the malignant form shows a higher rate of polymorphic skin lesions and development of multiple cutaneous tumors."

In other words, it describes it as wart-like papules and so on. "Real" warts are caused by viruses, but Dede's condition was caused by something else.

Ah I got ya.
They didn't explain it in that depth during the video I watched... So I guess they felt the word "wart" was adequate enough.

As the saying goes:
Looks like a turd, smells like a turd....

Stephen · 05-07-2013, 01:05 AM

Toxoplasmosis - I find it interesting that rats infected with toxoplasmosis lose their fear of cats making it more likely for them to be eaten and thus allowing the toxoplasmosis to continue the next phase of it's life cycle in the cat.

Stephen · 06-11-2013, 06:17 PM

Just found a three inch long black leech in my back yard. Thought it was a dried up earth worm but on closer inspection it was still alive. Black flattened body with a light stripe running the length of it's body and a narrow head. Pretty sure it was a leech which I have never seen here before. The fact that it was so big makes me wonder how it got there and how many others I have in my back yard. Really need to cut the grass. The other possibility is that it was a parasitic worm coughed up by a passing cat.

05-07-2013, 01:05 AM	#53 (permalink)
Stephen I sleep in your hat Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Melbourne, Vic. Aus. Posts: 1,847	Toxoplasmosis - I find it interesting that rats infected with toxoplasmosis lose their fear of cats making it more likely for them to be eaten and thus allowing the toxoplasmosis to continue the next phase of it's life cycle in the cat.

06-11-2013, 06:17 PM	#54 (permalink)
Stephen I sleep in your hat Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Melbourne, Vic. Aus. Posts: 1,847	Just found a three inch long black leech in my back yard. Thought it was a dried up earth worm but on closer inspection it was still alive. Black flattened body with a light stripe running the length of it's body and a narrow head. Pretty sure it was a leech which I have never seen here before. The fact that it was so big makes me wonder how it got there and how many others I have in my back yard. Really need to cut the grass. The other possibility is that it was a parasitic worm coughed up by a passing cat.