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Neglects Parasites - Southeast Asia - Afghanistan - Iraq

Posted by MillRatUSMC aka Ricardo on 3/17/2017, 2:36:47

Here's the links I received in an E-Mail.

http://vvaveteran.org/34-2/34-2_parasites.html
Web page for the links below

http://www.astmh.org/
American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene

http://www.wrair.army.mil/
Walter Reed Army Institue of Research

http://www.publichealth.va.gov/vethealthinitiative/
The VA Veterans Health Initiative

http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/
Public Library Of Science Neglected Tropical Diseases

https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/ntd/diseases/index.html
Neglected Tropical Diseases

https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/opisthorchiasis/index.html
Liver Flukes

https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/strongyloidiasis/index.html
Strongloidiasis - not too common in humans

https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/opisthorchiasis/tx.html
DPDx - Laboratory Identification of Parasitic Diseases of Public Health Concern
Opisthorchiasis
Treatment : Praziquantel
Alternative : Albendazole

I think more should be done to educate veterans of this problem.
Some parasites might lay in one's body for many years.
Before they become a medical problem.
I have to relate, a few days after I came home from Vietnam in late 1967.
I had some hair in my head fall out leaving an area about the size of a half dollar coin.
Than it all came back, was it nerves or was it a hitch-hiking parasite?
Also in early October 1967, while on Operation Medina, my infantry company came upon a fast running water stream.
That was about thigh-high deep, it was so hot.
Most everyone just drop their head into the fast running water and took a big drink of water.
No purification, none because it was over 100 degrees in the shade.
Now, I think did we pick up a few 'hitch-hikers'?
Besides some chemical agents such as Agent Orange.
I hope and pray this information might help some returning veteran get the help they need or deserve.
Semper Fidelis
Ricardo

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[quote]
 Here's the links I received in an E-Mail.

http://vvaveteran.org/34-2/34-2_parasites.html  
Web page for the links below

http://www.astmh.org/  
American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene

http://www.wrair.army.mil/  
Walter Reed Army Institue of Research

http://www.publichealth.va.gov/vethealthinitiative/ 
The VA Veterans Health Initiative

http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/  
Public Library Of Science Neglected Tropical Diseases

https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/ntd/diseases/index.html 
Neglected Tropical Diseases

https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/opisthorchiasis/index.html 
Liver Flukes

https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/strongyloidiasis/index.html 
Strongloidiasis - not too common in humans

https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/opisthorchiasis/tx.html  
DPDx - Laboratory Identification of Parasitic Diseases of Public Health Concern 
Opisthorchiasis 
Treatment : Praziquantel 
Alternative : Albendazole

I think more should be done to educate veterans of this problem.
Some parasites might lay in one's body for many years.
Before they become a medical problem.
I have to relate, a few days after I came home from Vietnam in late 1967.
I had some hair in my head fall out leaving an area about the size of a half dollar coin.
Than it all came back, was it nerves or was it a hitch-hiking parasite?
Also in early October 1967, while on Operation Medina, my infantry company came upon a fast running water stream.
That was about thigh-high deep, it was so hot.
Most everyone just drop their head into the fast running water and took a big drink of water.
No purification, none because it was over 100 degrees in the shade.
Now, I think did we pick up a few 'hitch-hikers'?
Besides some chemical agents such as Agent Orange.
I hope and pray this information might help some returning veteran get the help they need or deserve.
Semper Fidelis
Ricardo  
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