2 diseases caused by worms.?

Question

Pluzzze tell me 2 diseases caused by woems.Very urgent.

Answer 1

Lymphatic filariasis and river blindness, two diseases caused by filarial nematode worms, are the most important human tropical diseases after malaria. Nearly 140 million cases exist and over 1 billion people are at risk for infection. Despite admirable global efforts underway to control these devastating diseases, eradication will be extremely challenging with current technology. No vaccines are available, vector control programs have ended or are facing insect resistance, and drugs are largely ineffective against the worm's adult stage. Current drugs can effectively eliminate the worm's larval stages, but their broad use also increases the likelihood of accelerated drug resistance. To build on the current treatment regimen successes and to ensure that the path towards reduction and elimination of these diseases continues, new classes of chemistry with novel modes of action are urgently needed. The most critical of these are new macrofilaricides (drugs which kill or permanently sterilize the adult nematodes). Such drugs could:

accelerate programs to eradicate lymphatic filariasis
make elimination of onchocerciasis possible
increase patient benefit and compliance
decrease the likelihood of drug resistance and program failure.

Answer 2

Tape worm affect intestine. There are a lot of other parasitic worms which can cause acute infections in many parts of the body. If you are expecting a relevant urgent answer, you should have given more details.

Answer 3

Ascariasis and Trichuriasis. These two usually are sparring partners. Ascariasis is caused by Ascaris lumbricoides, the big round worm, while trichuriasis is caused by Trichuris trichuria the whipworm.

Answer 4

actually ring worm isn't a worm...its a fungus..but two disease caused by worms are: schistomsomias caused by s.japonicum and (trematode) and intestinal disease caused by a cestatode hymenolepis

Answer 5

elephantiasis or filarialisis caused by filarial worm and ascariasis by roundworm.The second one is the common worm trouble in children

Answer 6

Tape worms from eating meat that's not well cooked,the worm grows as long as of the length your body internally and then u die.

Answer 7

Cryptosporidia, maggots in the ear, and tapeworms in the intestine. And oh, ring worm under skin, enjoy.

Answer 8

C Fungal Diseases

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A fungal infection typically develops slowly and recurs more frequently than a bacterial infection. Histoplasmosis, characterized by a chronic cough and diarrhea, is contracted by inhaling the Histoplasma capsulatum fungus, which grows in soil. In the Central United States histoplasmosis is the most widespread fungal disease diagnosed in dogs, although it also affects other animals. Ringworm, a common skin disease of many species, causes circular patches of hair loss and scaly, reddened skin. It readily spreads by direct contact with an infected animal.

Yeast, another type of fungus, grows in warm and moist places, such as the ear canals of dogs. It may cause otitis externa, an infection of the outer ear. The yeast Candida albicans is commonly found in the intestinal tract of birds and other animals. It may be the primary cause of disease, or it may be a secondary invader in an animal already sick with another infection.

D Parasitic Infections

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Diseases caused by parasites are widespread in domestic animals and wildlife. Parasites may be internal or external. Internal parasites include Coccidia, a microscopic protozoal (single-celled) organism that causes diarrhea and extreme weight loss in many young animals.

Other internal parasites include the roundworm, tapeworm, and fluke. Larval roundworms can cause considerable damage to lungs and other organs in some animals. For instance, Capillaria worms may attack the lining of the digestive tract of chickens and turkeys; they parasitize the respiratory and urinary tracts of dogs. Adults of the heartworm Dirofilaria immitis, another roundworm, live in the heart of dogs and produce microscopic larval stages, which swim in the blood. Symptoms of heartworm disease include coughing, fatigue, and weight loss. If left untreated, an animal may experience heart failure. Tapeworms may have very damaging larval stages. In echinococcosis, the larval tapeworms may form large cysts in liver, lungs, and other organs of humans and animals.


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Flukes may directly damage the liver, lungs, or intestines, or they may act as carriers of other disease agents, as in the case of salmon poisoning of dogs in which the fluke, encysted in the body of a salmon, carries a virulent rickettsial agent.

External parasites live or feed on the surface of the animal's body. This group includes bloodsucking insects, such as mosquitoes, gnats, some flies, fleas, and some lice. Some insects are bloodsuckers in larval stages, such as ear maggots of hawk nestlings. Others, including some larval flies and some lice, eat tissue. Great damage to the meat and hides of cattle is caused by larval flies such as the ox warble, which migrates through the tissues and, after boring breathing holes through the skin, leaves the body to reproduce. Bloodsucking flies can transmit parasitic blood protozoans and some viruses.

Lice are of two types, those with chewing mouthparts and those with sucking mouthparts. Lice cause irritation, carry disease agents, and may cause anemia. Fleas are all bloodsuckers, and may transmit larval tapeworms, roundworms, and other disease agents. The sticktight flea may kill young birds by excessive bloodsucking. Mites may be external bloodsuckers, such as the red mite of birds (it can also affect humans and other animals), or they may be internal parasites, such as the Sternostoma mites of the lungs and air passages of canaries and other birds. Ticks, larger than mites, feed on blood and can carry serious infectious agents such as the bacteria that cause Q Fever and Lyme disease, which can be transmitted to humans.

E Prion Diseases

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Newly identified protein particles called prions have been found in the brains of animals that have died from diseases such as scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, more commonly known as mad cow disease. How prions act is unclear, but scientists theorize that prions attach to normal proteins in the brain. Once attached, the prions cause the normal proteins to change into an abnormal shape, leading to progressive destruction of brain cells and death. Prion diseases are thought to spread by means of feed supplements derived from infected animals. In recent years, public health officials have been concerned about the possibility that prion diseases may be transmitted to humans. This happens when humans eat contaminated beef or organs, causing them to contract such rare neurological diseases as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Answer 9

lachomia and philomia