Californians Getting Brain-infecting Parasites from Pigs
Want another reason to avoid pork? Notice the following:
California’s Unspoken Health Problem: Brain Parasites…it is the major cause for epilepsy worldwide. The CDC estimates that there are 1,900 diagnosed cases every year, 386 annual cases in California alonewhich can cost upwards of $66,000. Often it is paid through Medicare – costing taxpayers thousands.Tapeworms enter the body, normally ingested through pork or beef. The larvae use hook-like teeth to tear tiny holes in the intestines and sometimes travel to the brain.
Brain Parasite ‘Neurocysticercosis’ Cases Increasing In California…
According to the CDC, neurocysticercosis is preventable, but happens with larval cysts of the pork tapeworm enter the brain.
It is the most severe form of cyticercosis.http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/Brain-Parasite-Neurocysticercosis-Cases-Increasing-In-California-169038376.html
California Has A Problem With Brain-Infecting ParasitesSept 7, 2012 excerpt…The diagnosis, officially called Neurocysticercosis, is common in the third world (about 50 million people are infected globally). But American doctors often don’t know the symptoms of the 1,900 cases that show up in American hospitals every year.
The worms are originally tiny: about the size of peas. They come from eating contaminated pork, and fight their way into the small intestines and cling to the flesh there while draining nutrients from their host. They can grow to be 20 feet long and can make tens of thousands of eggs a day, which ride through the bloodstream through the whole body.
http://www.businessinsider.com/california-has-a-problem-with-brain-infecting-parasites-2012-9
Interestingly, years ago I remember reading a small item in the Townsend Letter for Doctors where the author claimed that 2% of visits to neurologists in California were related to problems associated with eating pork. It probably should be noted that because cattle are not always proper raised, parasites can come from them, but the neurological parasitic problems are much more closely associated with pork.
Relatively soon, serious pestilences are prophesied as they are part of what Jesus called “the beginning of sorrows”:
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. (Matthew 24:7-8)
If humans quit eating pigs, a lot of health problems would go away.
Some articles of possibly related interest may include:
Can the Great Tribulation Begin in 2012, 2013, or 2014? Can the Great Tribulation begin today? What is the “beginning of sorrows”? When is the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of the Lord?
The New Testament Church and Unclean Meats Are foods considered to have been unclean in the Old Testament considered to be food in the New Testament? This article discusses this from the perspective of the New Testament. It also has a list of clean and unclean animals. It also answers the question, is pork healthy or is pork dangerous?
Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse What is the pale horse of death and pestilence? What will it bring and when?
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