Re: Parasitologists Speak on Parasites and Resistance

Great post


---->"In reading the below comments, I’m now wondering how many parasitologist really do know what’s up, but haven’t informed the public at large. This goes back to my post on pharm meds and death stats."

Exactly! "pharm meds and death stats", coincidence? Not likely.
And is this maybe linked to why they still hold on to those poor testing methods for parasite detection and swear by them, is it a part of the "don't tell the truth" strategy? They must know, or? But what would happen if they suddenly told us?

I have a personal experience with consulting well known parasitologists. I was humiliated and called crazy. Were they serious or was it a pokerface?

Why are the parasite meds out on the market so OLD and "ineffective"?

---->"It’s due to the rise of drug resistance and the decline of our research and knowledge base".

The research for cancer is ongoing, it's huge. And why is that?

Why is it so easy to pin point how many animals that are infected, very precisely too, and even what type of critters? You can find tons of chart of animal infestations on google. But humans? Human or animal, both are made up of flesh and blood, whats up?

I have looked up the dewormers for cattle, dogs and cats and there is always a warning of the resistance issue.

Is it really that difficult to try to find out the parasites weak spots, find ways to break their cycle? Are they smarter than us?
Them becoming resistant must be a part of their survival strategy.
Or we have overlooked the co-factors, the co-infections, the "helpers".

---->"One last comment…. It’s amazing how many worms cattle and dairy cows carry in their intestinal tract. Ick! Perhaps if the parasitologists worked on controlling parasites in animals (food source that people consumed) and parasites in household pets, maybe there would be less of a burden on the human population? Just a thought. "

This is A HUGE ISSUE. We eat some of those animals and some of them sleep in our beds, lick our faces. Dog/cat owners have no idea about how easily they can get infested. They deworm their furry friends...but themselves? Our pets become our family members.

I was a dinner party once, one of the guets had a dog with her. She was feeding the dog from her plate, then she licked her fingers from the remains. And gave the dog icecream from her spoon, and then she continued to eat the rest of her ice cream with the same spoon. My eye balls almost fell out.

And the meat we eat. Those suckers can survive the most bizarre environments, from icy cold to flaming hot. We should learn how to cook and eat meat properly, if it's possible.

But the poor animals, the cattle, cows and pigs and sheeps. They can be dewormed over and over again, but the minute they get out there they get re-infested because of how they live and are fed. It is a never ending cycle. Just like the article says.

--->"We've shown that stocker cattle lose about a pound of gain per day because of parasites," Yazwinski said. "This is normal for animals that look good and healthy, but have 100,000 worms in their intestinal tracts. We've even seen dairy cows, which get most of their food brought to them in the barn, that have 110,000 worms."

Look good and are healthy? Could it be that the parasites dont want to kill their hosts, they are dependant on them? Is this a part of their horrid-symbios-strategy? We have read all the previous posts about how parasites can trick the immune system so they can live side by side with their host and not running the risk of the immune system detecting them and killing them.
Since "all" animals are parasite carriers, and if all would become sick from the infestation then all would die? Then the parasites would die too. There is a reason why the parasites dont make the hosts sick in 100% of the cases.


People are surprised when the topic parasites is brought up. "How do we get infested?", "Naah, not me, I dont eat dirt"

Why dont they ask this: How do WE not get infested?

----> "The parasites in our animals represent only a small percentage of what's out there," he said. "The majority of parasites are in the ENVIRONMENT, waiting their turns at the host."

Can a person ever be parasite free, or can we just lower the numbers much enough so that the body can recover somewhat and over time give us a tolerable existence?

Maybe nature wanted it to be this way, humans and animals are "walking frigdes". uuhh!