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How common are worms in western societies?
by ferros 6y ago
How common are worms in western societies?
- HarryHirsch 6y agoThey are not extinct: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-lowndes-county-alabama-water-waste-treatment-poverty https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-low...
- projektfu 6y agoTaenia is not uncommon in places like France that have more "small farm" production and sublethal cooking methods. A small risk to take, I suppose. https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-017-2280-8 https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11... Enterobius is quite common across the world. It's also considered to be minimally pathogenic, so it probably is only treated in symptomatic cases.
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoEnterobius is actually airborne, and highly contagious. But adults usually do not have them.
- esaym 6y agoPinworms[0] are a lot more common than I think most people (doctors included) realize. Though the symptoms are not as bad (that we know of) [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinworm_infection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinworm_infection
- raxxorrax 6y agoDoesn't seem too dangerous... at least physically. Hope they don't make you want to smell cat urine.
- pieceofcakedude 6y agoExtremely... but unfortunately most Western doctors won't test for it, won't prescribe meds for it and are convinced that it's not possible in 1st world countries. In other words, utter quackery.
- DelightOne 6y agoCan you just take meds for every worm there is or how do you know what kind of worms to test for?
- Tepix 6y agoSource? Both for your claim that they are "extremely" common and that doctors won't test
- hnick 6y agoI remember having worming pills as a precaution as a child in Australia, and was also later infected with threadworm at least once so had medicine for that. I did walk around outside without shoes a lot back then. But from what I've seen in research and been told by doctors, they see no reason to worm adults as a precaution. I'm not sure what the supposed downside is of doing it once a year or so - nasty side effects?