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How can it be prevented?

TheJapanes Lung FLuke Can be prevented by:

•boiling or purifying drinking water

•avoiding raw or undercooked fish or salads made from fresh aquatic plants; all food eaten in areas with fluke infestations should be cookedthoroughly; pickling or smoking will not kill fluke cysts in fish or shellfish

•control or eradication of the snails that serve as the flukes' intermediate hosts

Paragonimiasis diagnosis is done by looking at sputum (slime from the lungs), to see if there are any lung fluke eggs. Feces can be examined, too. Alternatively X-rays and biopsies can be taken. Paragonimiasis is usually treated with a drug called praziquantel.

How is this type of parasitic infection diagnosed and treated and treated?

Paragonimiasis diagnosis is done by looking at sputum (slime from the lungs), to see if there are any lung fluke eggs. Feces can be examined, too. Alternatively X-rays and biopsies can be taken. Paragonimiasis is usually treated with a drug called praziquantel.

How many people die from the parasite a year?

This disease is widespread, affecting more than 20 million people in Japan, China, Southeast Asia, and India.

Names

Common name: Trapense Lung Fluke or Oriental Lung Fluke

Scientific Name: Paragonimous Westermani

How do humans contract it?

Class: Trematoda

Infection with the Lung Fluke (Paragonimus) occurs by humans most commonly

becoming infected by eating the following:

-Raw

-Undercooked

-Salted

-Prickled freshwater crabs

-Crayfish that contain the parasite inside a cyst.

Effect on Humans

Where is this type of parasitic infection most prevalent?

These are the effects on humnas that happen while the worms are migrating from the intestines to the lungs

-Diarrhea

-Abdominal pain

-High fever

-Hives

Southeast Asia in particular is affected because raw seafood is very popular there. Humans get infected with the disease, paragonimiasis, by eating raw crabs or fish that are carrying the parasite

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Hosts:

Intermediate and Final

The natural definitive hosts other than man include a wide range of mammals.

Intermediate hosts are fairly restricted: in Korea, molluscan hosts are Semisulcospira libertina and other species of Semisulcospira depending on the endemic locality

The final common crustacean hosts are Eriocheir japonicus, E. sinensis and Cambaroides similis

Japanese Lung Fluke

~Davia Gordon ~Elianys Cabrera

~Melissa Arroliga ~Michelle Gutierrez

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