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Anonymous
Are there any real dangers of having hookworms?
>> Anonymous
If that's a hook worm, then yes, fucking night terrors.
>> Anonymous
As long as you know what they're up to, there isn't any real problem.
>> Anonymous
>>319480
They're trying to go up my penish
>> Anonymous
Define "real dangers".
The New World hookworm is called Necator americanus (American killer) for a reason. From Wikipedia:

Ankylostomiasis... is the disease caused by hookworms. It is caused when hookworms, present in large numbers, produce an iron deficiency anemia by voraciously sucking blood from the host's intestinal walls.... Hookworm is a leading cause of maternal and child morbidity in the developing countries of the tropics and subtropics. In susceptible children hookworms cause intellectual, cognitive and growth retardation, intrauterine growth retardation, prematurity, and low birth weight among newborns born to infected mothers. Hookworm infection is rarely fatal, but anemia can be significant in the heavily infected individual.

Dunno about canine hookworms, but I imagine the effects are pretty much the same.
>> Anonymous
They BURROW INTO YOUR FUCKING FEET to get into your fucking blood and then they drink your blood like disgusting little vampires that live in your goddamn intestines jesus fuck they're disgusting
>> Anonymous
>>319499


There are much worse types of parasites around, trust me.

At the moment there are a few trials around based on the theory that immune disorders, like asthma, allergies or the really vicious ones that turn the body on its own internal organs, are caused by the fact that we're too 'clean'. Basically, the human immune system has evolved to cope with parasites, we've removed the parasites and the human immune system is now attacking the human. (They were considering my mother for one of these trials but she didn't fit all the criteria.) I have it in my head that that hookworm was one of the parasites they were trialling, but now that I think of it, it's probably something else. The beastie comes from undercooked pork meat, lives in the intestines and is shed with the faeces in a predictable life cycle. As an added bonus, the eggs of this beastie only hatch if they've been buried in moist soil for a number of months/weeks; thus, with modern sanitisation, the chance of the infection spreading or even perpetuating itself is very, very low. And then, when the cycle is over, the human subject is again reinfected and it goes around again. The weird thing, or so I'm told, is that during endoscopies to check the progress of these parasites, each individual would have a certain number of worms living in them, no more, no less. No matter how many eggs they swallowed, only a set number of worms would be found in their systems each time and this set number varied from individual to individual, but never varied in the individual themselves.

Frankly, with autoimmune disorders around that make garden variety asthma look like a walk in the park, Crom's Disease, catastrophic organ failure, hypoallergies etc, I think that, provided a certain balance is maintained with a comparatively benign beastie, I'd be happy to live with a few parasites.
>> Anonymous
>>319560Crom's Disease
I think you meant Crohn's Disease. I actually have it, and it's not that bad at all. I take 2 pills a day and feel no symptoms of the disease whatsoever.
>> Anonymous
>>319565

Then you're very lucky. I know two people who have it and they're in constant pain and have had half or more of their intestines removed.
>> Anonymous
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>>319560
CROM!

sorry it had to be done.