#LutteDesClasses et #parasites @nicolasframont
Sur sismique (2h )
https://youtu.be/3tbVPpiCqm0?si=808b3Nf2S9jls0B_
#LesBourgeoisAuCompost

With a quick glance via Google, I found images of carpet pythons in trees and articles about large boluses on roofs. If this is typical behavior, another route of infection is easy to imagine. The fresh feces falls and splatters soiling the leaves. Or, when it rains, the bolus liquifies and splashes below.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/aussies-shocked-monster-python-poo-find-queensland-home-075748769.html

#parasite #Parasites #zoonosis

https://www.petcraft.com/articles/2017/03/05/raccoon-roundworms-the-hidden-horror/ #parasite #Parasites

There are remarkable examples where the pathogen and host coevolve to improve predation and transmission. Cats and T. gondii. Racoons and Baylisascaris procyonis. Is the Ophidascaris CNS infection a loud echo of Baylisascaris?

The news is covering the human Ophidascaris infection as an oddity. If that's what it is, then that's what it is. If instead it's an instance of a pattern of host - parasite evolution, that's something important.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/9/23-0351_article

#Parasites #evolution

In Natural History of Infectious Disease Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet outlines the principle that pathogen and host tend to equilibrium / accommodation. The exception that he lists is where there is more than one host. The pathogen then will tend to increase in virulence in one.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/9/23-0351_article

#Parasites #infectiousdiseases #infectiousdisease #zoonosis #evolution

@spamless

When I started watching this⬇️ interview with the neurosurgeon, I was thinking "Did the doctor get creeped out - nah, you have to have nerves of steel to be a neurosurgeon."

She got creeped out.

https://youtu.be/fGmXD7NPftY?si=BNJnpWiJpPA-Mz91

#Brain #parasites #neuroscience #health

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/29/nyregion/nyc-mosquitoes-west-nile.html?unlocked_article_code=4S7fsjSaeZSChazYDYDDWP-M1D_t8ZJPqkOJ5R2B7gXb7NH0NJGv-CHlWH-CRY3R_4Ky5gBTBOZX0gWSRZ79cg_YOOJSP5mHXobykoJNIB05jNb3ePdoTKlbZWMVM8VOEv7DcoQFPDLkE5_53H150uog6kCtC3Qgkt02TFG63og04tOzTy3b0S30eoW4MaW_PSh1o2Z2Z6I6tIaKyMyS4voSlqbjBkB3Z55bEyC7b0QhkJBclAqPnzSmzGs6cd3DCpiN351VODrVdVOB67_KUhwld7Zl4-OvriYYdPXvfCnNZhxeNhMGQ72x_hYGOAKtlPuxiyq-kn5rHrD1VHNb958fOw&smid=url-share

#Parasites #zoonosis #publichealth #WestNileVirus

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/australia/australia-parasitic-worm-brain-scn-intl-hnk/index.html

#Parasites

The Ophidascaris robertsi roundworm is common in carpet pythons - non-venomous snakes found across much of Australia.

Scientists say the woman most likely caught the roundworm after collecting a type of native grass, Warrigal greens, beside a lake near where she lived. #brainworms #parasites https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66643241

September 2023
CDC
Dispatch

Human Neural Larva Migrans Caused by Ophidascaris robertsi Ascarid

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/9/23-0351_article

#Parasites
#IDMastodon
#OneHealth

A live worm. In the brain. 🐛 🧠 😱

'The neurosurgeon, Dr Hari Priya Bandi, had pulled an 8cm-long parasitic roundworm from her patient, prompting her to call on Senanayake and other hospital colleagues for advice about what to do next.

The patient, a 64-year-old woman from south-eastern New South Wales, was first admitted to her local hospital in late January 2021 after suffering three weeks of abdominal pain and diarrhoea, followed by a constant dry cough, fever and night sweats'

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/28/live-worm-living-womans-brain-australia-depression-forgetfulness

#Parasites #Worm #Brain #Australia #Snake

Ewww 🫣 🤯 - Live worm found wriggling in Australian woman’s brain - #enbrainification #parasites #brain #NeuroScience #NeuroSurgery #Yuk #OMG https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/28/live-worm-living-womans-brain-australia-depression-forgetfulness

‘Oh my God’: live #worm found in Australian woman’s #brain in world-first discovery | #Health | The Guardian

This is what happens if a tune gets stuck in your head for too long.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/28/live-worm-living-womans-brain-australia-depression-forgetfulness

#Surgery #Biology #Parasites #Diseases

"Fossil Poop “feces” infested with #parasites from over 200 million years ago"
"Ancient predator was infected by #nematodes and multiple other parasite species" #coprolites
https://www.geologypage.com/2023/08/fossil-poop-feces-infested-with-parasites-from-over-200-million-years-ago.html

New #ISEPpapers! Shining the spotlight on the neglected: new high-quality #genome assemblies as a gateway to understanding the evolution of Trypanosomatidae https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-023-09591-z #protists #parasites #microbes #genomics #microbiology #genomes #science #trypanosoma by Amanda Albanaz et al.

#Parasites Are Actually Vital For Some Species' Survival, Study Shows

https://www.sciencealert.com/parasites-are-actually-vital-for-some-species-survival-study-shows

@contreattaque Pauvre petit paradis fauché dans la fleur de l'âge.

RIP #Parasites

@nev

Amazing. Coincidentally, bees are host to the bee louse (#Braulidae), which is nothing other than a wingless fly adapted to live on bee bodies … just like bat flies do on bats.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braulidae
#Diptera #honeybees #parasites

Floating #microplastics can harbor #parasites, #bacteria, #fungi, and #viruses. Could these plastic bits facilitate the spread of disease? There’s enough evidence to raise concern. A PNAS News Feature: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311253120

@KateShaw 's latest episode is on whale lice and sea lice, and the puzzle of the 3 different species of whale lice on sperm whales:
https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2023/08/07/episode-340-whale-lice-and-sea-lice

#whales
#fish
#parasites