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Elephantiasis And Crohn's Disease

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African trypanosomiasis (human African sleeping sickness) it is transmitted to humans by tsetse fly bites that they get from infected animals or other humans that are carrying the human pathogenic parasite that comes from the genus Trypanosoma. These lies are mostly found in areas with rural populations that depend on agriculture. Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) is a tropical disease that is transmitted to humans through mosquitos. The most common nematode (roundworms) that causes swelling of the lymphatic tissue would be Wuchereria bancrofti. When a mosquito bites an infected host the blood they ingest have microfilariae, which then mature into infective larvae inside the mosquito. Therefore, when an infected mosquito bites a human the mature parasite larvae sit on the skin where then they enter the body and the cycle of transmission continues. …show more content…

Then when a person touches the cat’s feces from changing the litter box or any contact with the cat the parasites can enter the placenta of a pregnant woman. Also meat from an animal can be infected with parasite cysts. Eating the contaminated or undercooked meat can infect a person. People that are suffering from Crohn’s disease (another type of inflammatory bowel disease related to immune function) and ulcerative colitis (immune cells start attacking it’s own gut lining and making it bleed). These whipworms they use don’t survive in the digestive system and a person with pass them out through their

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