![]() A teenage waitress deals with bed bugs who have hitched a ride in her suitcase after staying in a hotel on vacation.Ī 16-year-old girl contracts Acanthamoeba keratitis from expired contact lenses and almost loses her sight. An employee at a chemical factory who used to smoke contracts the Paragonimus kellicotti fluke from eating raw crayfish, causing him to cough up blood. An elderly delivery man in Dallas, Texas comes down with leishmaniasis.Ī young man gets botfly maggots in his head after he went on a trip to Belize. An outbreak of Cryptosporidium hominis occurs in the southern part of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and kills 101 people, caused by human feces contaminating the city's water system and evaded the water treatment as the cysts survive chlorine. In 2000, a group of teenage students are affected by Angiostrongylus cantonensis worms after they ate a contaminated salad in Jamaica. A young man gets Schistosoma mansoni flukes in his brain, which cause dizziness and nausea and which he picked up from Africa in 1998.Ī closer look at parasitic outbreaks from across the U.S. ![]() In 1967, an elderly Vietnam War veteran was diagnosed with malaria and successfully treated, but later in 2003, he has his legs and testicles destroyed by Lymphatic filariasis caused by Wuchereria bancrofti worms. In 2002, an 11-month-old baby boy is infected with Baylisascaris procyonis worms that cause him to sleep excessively, lose his balance and almost go blind. ![]()
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