Where raccoon ringworm disease has been discovered?
Raccoon Ringworm Hits Two In New York: A rare disease transmitted by raccoons has left an infant with brain damage and a teen blind in one eye in New York. The city is on the alert for Raccoon Ringworm, a very rare disease that can affect humans who come in contact with raccoon feces. The disease can cause permanent nerve damage and in the most serious cases death. The New York Daily News reports: Parents should closely supervise small children in areas where raccoons live to prevent possible ingestion of raccoon feces,” said Sally Slavinski, of a Health Department unit that deals with diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans. The infant that was infected last October. It is believed that he got the disease in upstate New York. He has been in hospital since that time. His symptoms started with seizures and spinal problems which caused brain damage. The Brooklyn teen lost sight in his right eye this January. There have been fewer than 30 cases of Raccoon Ringworm repo
It’s a disease so rare that there are fewer than 30 cases that have been reported nationwide, but New York City health officials are reporting two cases of raccoon roundworm; a disease contracted through contact with raccoon feces. It can cause permanent nerve damage and death. In the two NYC cases of raccoon roundworm, a teenager lost sight in one eye and a baby is brain-damaged from the disease. Some publications have been erroneously calling the disease “raccoon ringworm,” rather than roundworm. The worms lay eggs which are expelled in the raccoon’s feces; they hatch after being ingested and travel through the body. The teenager lost sight in one eye in January, while the infant has been hospitalized since suffering seizures and spinal problems last October. Sources: http://www.huliq.
A rare, deadly disease that has left an infant brain damaged and a teenager blind in one eye, has been detected in Brooklyn, the Daily News has learned. The city’s Department of Health is on alert for Raccoon Roundworm, a disease contracted through contact with raccoon feces. It can cause permanent nerve damage and death. The disease had previously been incorrectly called Raccoon Ringworm. “Parents should closely supervise small children in areas where raccoons live to prevent possible ingestion of raccoon feces,” said Sally Slavinski, of a Health Department unit that deals with diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans. In the first case, a healthy infant who traveled to upstate New York last year started having seizures and spinal problems last October. The baby has been brain-damaged and hospitalized ever since. Then, in January, a Brooklyn teen who hasn’t left the city recently, lost sight in the right eye. Fewer than 30 cases of Raccoon Roundworm have been report
raccoon ringworm disease has been discovered in Brooklyn where 2 patient are infected with it.One is a teenager and other is a baby. Sources: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/05/03/2009-05-03_raccoon_disease_hits_brooklyn_teen__tot.
