Talk:Schistosomiasis
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[edit] Schistosomiasis
There is a huge repository of abstracti at EntrezPubMed keyword Dongting Lake, the giant lake south of Wuhan City in China. I get the feeling that the bug community is using 'Kettle Lake' as a launching pad for a complete look at schistosomiasis problems in general. I really don't know the abstract landscape; where are the richest depositories of information?
McDogm Apr 28 2005 1625 est usa
[edit] Epidemiology
There is a tendency for young adults to lose the Schistosomiasis they acquired in their early years. Adult EPGs per person are very low. Most EPG consists of preteen EPG. There is an occasional spike in an adult's EPG due to occupational exposure. As primary and secondary school conditions are improved, EPG declines.
McDogm Apr 28 2005 1718 est usa
[edit] Infection Rate
The article cites 200 m as the number of people who are actually infected. This is a number I have seen many times in the literature. The thing is, as one 8 year old becomes infected, one 13 year old loses the worm. Thus, there are always 200 million people with the bug. One would have to go very deeply into African culture, sub-continental culture, Thai culture and South China culture to understand how young men and women could lose this bug so regularly and completely so as to be completely free of it; free enough to emigrate freely to Europe or North America; free enough to operate restaurants in Hong Kong. A trip to the Chinese Dictionary would not be out of line at this point, as I have found that the information regarding the bug is written into the Asian characters in very subtle and clever ways, in the same way that French culture is written into the English language. Tropical people don't really face a winter flu like Russians or Ontarians do. If one is instead faced with complete schistosomiasis as an environmental hazard, and if one's culture leads irresolutely to antisepsis in the early teens, then one would be in possession of a cultural process that is relatively alien to Northerners. In this case one would want to use a word hoard that was skewed North -- South to solve this bifurcate epidemiology instead of a Nordic/Bantu linguistic construct, as exists in the Western Hemisphere. Chinese and the other Asian languages indeed skew North -- South, as the written characters are identical in Hokkaido, Yunnan and at all points in between.
McDogm Apr 28 2005 1800 est usa
[edit] from web
University of Toledo For blatent theft of generations of research by Ethiopian scientists. In 1990 Ethiopian scientist Aklilu Lemma was offered an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Toledo for his development of the Ethiopian endod plant ("soapberry") as a possible cure for schistosomiasis. While in Ohio, Lemma demonstrated that the endod plant would also destroy the zebra mussels which cause US $5 billion damage each year to the Great Lakes. Four months later, the University of Toledo applied for a patent in its own name. Ethiopian research on endod began centuries ago when mothers found that endod protected their children playing in the water. Ethiopian scientists devoted 19 years to testing endod before Toledo's patent was granted. Special Endorsement: "Marie Antoinette Napkin Ring" For offering to license Ethiopians their own technology. Early in 1995, the president of the University of Toledo advised Ethiopian scientists that they could buy a license to continue their own research on endod for a generous US $25,000. For an outstanding contribution to the "let them eat cake" modality of North-South cooperation, the Coalition grants the University of Toledo the Marie Antoinette Napkin Ring.
The ethiopian scientists got the Right Livelihood Award in 1989.--217.251.141.170 02:28, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
- Added to Pokeweed--217.251.141.170 03:01, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Civil Engineering
Can I ask why the references inserted to the role of civil engineers in causing the disease have been downplayed? The most significant feature about the disease, is that the massive increase has been largley caused by ill thought out irrigation schemes. This was pointed out 30 years ago, but it was not until recently even in the Wiki article. - for desctription of symposium attended by engineers where this problem became apparent see: The IRG Solution - Hierarchical Incompetence and how to overcome it. David Andrews. Souvenir Press, London, 1984. Pages 200 - 220. isbn 0285 626620. Page 88 - 89 Engineman 08:20, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
