Re: Hydrozoans Found In Blood

Mystery of the ages... How DO we get infected? It's hard to narrow it down, these particular specimens are waterbourne. I used to spend a lot of time in the water and fishing, both freshwater and marine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterborne_diseases



BUT I've also spent a lot of time digging in dirt and huffing a lot of dust on dry land, where parasites are just as likely.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2014/10/31/minings-hookworm-history/#.VzuoV_krJkg



Animals, textiles, food, .... who knows? I think it's our inabilty to resist and fight them that's the real problem. Our dumbed down immune systems that keeps us from even getting a fever... *Sigh* How did that happen?

Anyway, I found something interesting not long ago, when tired of looking at "gross" stuff under the microscope. Out of my rock collection I plucked a cool looking beryl stone to check out under the micro. Gazing over the rough surface, my jaw completely dropped at what I saw! A hydra! There as plain as could be, from where I least expected it. Without all the previous research, I'd have never even recognized it as such.

























On the central clear "worm", there is a trigger. ????

It is what it is, but is it a fossil? Some of the beaded tentacles are actually IN the rock. How long would it take to move through rock?!

THIS IS WHY I've been obsessed lately... About Hydra... This and just too much else to ignore...


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