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Parasite Prevention

 
  • WATER: Both recreational water (water used for swimming and other activities) and drinking water can become contaminated with parasites and cause illness. Recreational water illnesses (RWIs) are diseases that are spread by swallowing, breathing, or having contact with contaminated water from swimming pools, hot tubs, lakes, rivers, or the ocean. The most commonly reported RWI is diarrhea caused by parasites, such as Cryptosporidium and Giardia.
  • FOOD: Occasionally in the U.S., but often in developing countries, a wide variety of helminthic roundworms, tapeworms, and flukes are transmitted in foods. These include: undercooked fish, crabs, and mollusks, undercooked meat; raw aquatic plants such as watercress; and raw vegetables that have been contaminated by human or animal feces. Some foods are contaminated by food service workers who practice poor hygiene or who work in unsanitary facilities. Symptoms of foodborne parasitic infections vary greatly depending on the type of parasite. Protozoa such as Cryptosporidium, Giardia, and Cyclospora most commonly cause diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms. Helminthic (worms) infections can cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, muscle pain, cough, skin lesions, malnutrition, weight loss, neurological and many other symptoms depending on the particular organism and burden of infection.
  • FECAL-ORAL: More than a half dozen parasites are naturally found in the intestine of humans and animals. Fecal-Oral is the term used when indicating that some fecal material made it into the mouth. Wash your hands after changing diapers, after using the toilet, any time you clean up feces from your pets, farm animals or even mouse droppings you find. After you play with your pets, wash your hands! And those cute kisses they give you? Don't forget where that mouth of theirs has been!
  • SKIN: While hookworms can be ingested, the usual method of infection is through the skin. This is commonly caused by walking barefoot through areas contaminated with fecal matter. The larvae are able to penetrate the skin of the foot. Once inside the body, they migrate through the vascular system to the lungs, and from there up the trachea, and are swallowed. They pass down the esophagus and enter the digestive system, finishing their journey in the intestine, where the larvae mature into adult worms. PLEASE wear shoes when you go outside and even inside if you have indoor pets. Contact with your pets can contaminate you with microscopic parasite eggs you can't see. Never let them lick your face and wash your hands after petting them.
  • INSECT: An insect that transmits a disease is known as a vector. Insects can act as mechanical vectors, like when house flies transmit viruses or organisms that cause diarrhea. Insects can also serve as obligatory hosts where the disease organism must undergo development before being transmitted (as in malaria). Transmission of disease can take place with the parasite entering the host through the saliva of the insect during a blood meal (e.g., malaria and dengue), or from parasites in the feces of the insect that defecates immediately after a blood meal (e.g., Chagas disease). Parasites transmitted by insects often circulate in the blood of the host causing damage to organs or other parts of the body.
  • BLOOD: Some parasites can be blood-borne. This means the parasite can be found in the bloodstream of infected people and can be spread to other people through exposure to an infected person's blood (for example, by blood transfusion or by sharing needles or syringes contaminated with blood). Examples of parasitic diseases that can be blood-borne include African trypanosomiasis, babesiosis, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, malaria, and toxoplasmosis. In nature, many blood-borne parasites are spread by insects (vectors), so they are also referred to as vector borne diseases.
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