Guinea worm

[Moue666]

In a world...

[DexwardCuxann]

Damn, seeing that AXN logo brings memories.

[driedtodust]

That is probably one of the grossest things I have seen in my life... And I'm not easily grossed out. If we got them solar ovens, couldn't they boil water with that if they can't easily get fire wood? It's sad that people still have to live like this.

[cjcool91]

@driedtodust Yes they can boil water but that means firewood for cooking will be short...the best idea is to get rid of the parasite for good....make them extinct,,,,from what I hear what they do to kill the parasite is that they will let the worm release its larva into a bucket of water and then extract the worm and the let the water (with the larva) just let it dry out in the sun which kills the larva.

[simmytime]

why dont they give that person anaethetic when removving the worm?

[WWalker420]

The problem with boiling water is that in GW endemic areas there is usually little available fire wood (or other fuel) and the little that exists must be used for cooking. Boiling water is simply a luxury that these communities cannot afford.

[irreashable]

update your system everybody Hell it's 2011..get a new Antivirus!

[UtopiaMinor666]

poor guy. that looks like it really hurts.

[MrAperumpe]

Gotta love the dramatic voice

[eat666shit]

All praise the almighty lord,creator of all living things on the earth :)

[mathewtang777]

wwooww

[BeeNinjas]

Why cant they boil it they can create fire cant they

[NurDeutsch56]

@BeeNinjas You are an mmmmmbitch that likes mmmmmmbananas.

[Agenttangerine]

Vile things. Bless Carter and the Carter foundation!

[bfd0902]

wait..it makes a blister on the skin. why not just cut open the blister and get it???

[Wiggyify]

@bfd0902

its not so easy, if you pull the worm out too harshly it'll rupture and send the patient into an anaphylactic shock which could kill him\her!

sorrry for the jargon :)

[czesiofan1]

Omg!

If people would stop investing 50% of their bugdets to army's and use it to help countries like that and stop attacking them the world would be better wouldn't it?

[Scrillls]

what stops animals from getting it? are they naturally immune?

[she2li]

@Scrillls animals..r vectors....whereas humans r primary host...therefore disease occur in humans n not cyclops.....

[futuresoldier7]

I thought, well in bio class if I remember correctly, if the worm is broken, the acids it releases kills the human if the acids get into the bloodstream, that's the reason why they pull it out slowly, and they wrap it so it doesn't go back inside, and they pull it out slowly and overtime so it does not snap. Often the people cannot walk or move so they do not risk the possibility of snapping the worm.

[ffariman]

why is the Embedding disabled ?? i need it for my parasitology presentation:/

[tehlinebeginstoblur]

What this video fails to make clear is that unless you live in (or visit and stupidly drink unclean water) one of the 4 hotspots (4 countries in Africa) in which this disease is still endemic, you are pretty much guaranteed you won't contract guinea worm ever. It is the only human parasite that is believed possible to fully eradicate within the next several years (and without the use of vaccines).

[cgray6306]

It made it very clear. You obviously didn't watch it all the way.

[123HailMe]

Yeah,

They still have to make sure they filter all their drinking water with a cloth to filter out all the water fleas that contain the larvae. All it takes is for one person to get infected and it could spread like wildfire all over again. They tend to produce thousands of larva each time.

This video states that the worms themselves cannot kill. This is wrong. Sometimes the worms wind up in the heart by accident, triggering death.

[018lagata]

por k no puedo bajar este video lo nesecito porfavor es urgente esta justo lo k nesecito para mostrar a mi profesor ayudeme

[Spiritree41]

I agree with you. Why not boil it and let it cool before drinking it. Maybe its so hot there they are desperately thirsty at the moment and cant wait to boil it and wait for it to cool. This is horrible...

[tsotsoko]

I grew up in a different place, we don't have these type of worm. But anyway, I can give you a little bit of knowledge.

Boiling water needs woods for fire. And they are expensive. And a lot of NGO are active to protect the forest (nature) from extinction, making the price farther more expensive.

Number 2, they don't believe that it's from the water. They would say it's a trick to make them buy things.

[syriakid]

@tsotsoko Thank you for giving a different perspective on this subject. Many people seem to turn to the obvious answers of boiling water, etc., and I know that I atleast certainly did not think of any of the reasons why this would be a problem for people in villages affected by this parasite. I truly hope that this parasite is erradicated.

[zenmen55]

I read that there's only 10,000 cases reported each year, almost all in Africa, man I can add this to the things that make me feel sorry for Africa.

[xXGaticaXx]

I got parasites from the tap water in my town wtf, we have the dirtiest water in the country and mom hardly ever buys bottled water, and im constantly thirsty, so I gave in and drank that disgusting stuff and got Giardiasis a parasite found in FECAL MATTER oh lord it was disgusting and painful as hell, they paralize your intestine and everything in your stomach 'ferments' you start belching and it tastes like rotten eggs, then comes the vomiting, it's not normal vomit it feels like hot rocks

[Innuendo91]

What the FUCK.

[hockey0345]

@xXGaticaXx were the fuck do u live

[xXGaticaXx]

Costa Rica, if you visit, don't drink the fucking tape water mate D:

[redwings500]

i feel so bad for kids in africa

[CastratedWeasel]

why did he have to say thtat at the end? WHY?

[angelpup4jen]

clean water and education would eradicate Dracunculus medinesis. it needs water and a copepod to survive. keep the blisters out of the water, keep the larvae away from copepods, no more guinea worm... The caduceus came from this though, thats interesting...

[skizoooooo]

yuck!

[Presidentjh]

That is terrible! I'm glad that we're on the way to eradicating the bastard.

That's one species that we want to go extinct.

[truepaths]

this and the botfly need to exit stage left

[shenmue15654]

woh, dont say that ,, youl piss of PETA

[Shadowmov3r]

@livinglegend1187 Now that's just mean, shouldn't we blame the blondes?

[cchj768]

@livinglegend1187 Maybe when a fucking redneck douche bag like you is killed, the world's avergae IQ will rise by about 20 points.

[BearBudah]

@Presidentjh Most parasites in general I believe...

[billbinmei]

i feel bad for saying this... but learn to boil water?

[srang12345]

@billbinmei well it can live a citys water system 2...so next time you take a bath ;) dont drink any water....

[Wiggyify]

@billbinmei

these people dont even have enough resources to actually boil water! i bet some sort of filters for cyclops would be more effective

[Wiggyify]

what is it about the worm that makes the immune system unable to recognise it?!

[darthspeaks]

@Wiggyify It would be good to identify this for non-rejection.

[RemoteEars]

@billbinmei The video is wrong. It's not the worm people drink, it's small crustaceans that have eaten the worm eggs. Boiling the water,is alot of work for a drink Being used now and extremely simple and effective. People use straws with mesh covering them. This prevents the crustaceans from being ingested. (The method the worm uses to enter the water is as follows: The burning sensation is caused as the worm emerges. So people place it in water to cool it. It then releases eggs into the water.

[etphonehome2915]

It costs money to boil water, and most of these folks are exstremely poor. But your right it would fix the problem.

[Deathy666x]

@billbinmei no shit right? you wanna slap some people in africa... USE A CONDOM! BOIL WATER...

[merxtwas]

@billbinmei you fucking should feel bad....

[CrazyCleatus420]

Little niggers are cursed.

[alcopwn12]

yeah thanks i have a project for health and it helped me out :)

[vaneissa]

oh my God.. I really feel bad for them.... by the way thanks for the documental... it helped me with my project...

[tofunator]

no, you fat fuck. You're not special, except maybe in the short-bus sense. However, these folks, thru no fault of their own, are denied the benefits of industrialized society by liberal idiots who want to combat "global warming".

[Fernt]

Yeah, I'm sure GM is just dying to open a plant near the tribal guinea worm hole if only the EPA would let them

[tofunator]

and these are the people that greenpeace wants to keep in their "unspoiled" and "balanced with nature" state. Can someone tell me why we deserve purified water and they don't?

[muell0815]

Any source for that? Or just an assumption?

[smokinggod]

ew....

[CosmicZero45]

thats gotta hurt

[lukegarry15]

Gah!

[ijent]

no 1 nih hehehe