It should be everyone's right. But have you unscrewed your kitchen faucet tap to look inside lately?
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We help public and private sector clients strategize and manage interventions and intelligence collection to avert and contain biohazard impact. Our portfolio includes US military health agencies, US Department of Energy and academic research collaboration, US Homeland Security, and Canadian and UK health departmetns and government agencies.
- Roundworm
- Apparent flukes
- Potential tapeworm larvae (similar to Michigan)
- Small black worms
- Indian colleagues at UCSD, La Jolla Worm Institute, and in Kaiser labs recognize one of the species - the small black worms - immediately
- Lens match and medical intelligence identify some of the species appearing in humans and environment, but not all
- Washington DC area military and federal labs, including NIH-NIAID, offer support to impacted victims when their own doctors or medical labs - not licensed or trained in parasitology - cannot help
- Roundworm and tapeworm are said to cause Covid, worsen symptoms
- Parasites use the same Innate Immunity disabling channels as Covid
- FDA Biologics earlier this summer opened clinical investigation into medical malpractice by a Virginia lab that repeatedly tested for the wrong kind of parasite, returning false negatives
- FDA opened a case after worms were photographed in eyedrops from a Gaithersburg, MD Kaiser pharmacy; made in the same Mumbai area as eyedrops recalled earlier in 2023
Roundworm and tapeworm kill, blind, sicken, or permanently injure roughly 1 in 5 humans each year, worldwide. Covid killed or sickened 1 in 1,400 humans during the pandemic. So early recognition and treatment - of environment, animals, and humans - is critical to protect life and prevent further infection spread.
LEFT: small pink fluke- or fish-like shape common in Montgomery Co drinking water faucets in an apartment complex near NIH-NIAD, in a rural biomed park. Next to it, human parasite developed by residents of the same housing.
'Common target organs are the eyes, brain, liver, and lungs, with a risk of permanent visual, neurological and other tissue damage. Epidemiological studies have identified geophagy and pet dogs (particularly puppies) as the principal risk factors for human toxocarosis (and tapeworm) infections.. Larval growth is slow, resulting in an asymptomatic phase of several (months to) years before diagnosis. Left untreated, the condition may be lethal.'
- US National Institute of Health (NIH)
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