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Several of the NTDs that exist in Argentina have a lower incidence, but their impact on the patients who suffer from them is not.
Mycetoma and other deep mycoses produce chronic inflammations that cause the progressive destruction of the skin and subcutaneous tissues; The taeniasis It is caused by the presence of an adult tapeworm in the human intestine; and cysticercosis is contracted by ingesting tapeworm eggs that then produce larvae lodged in the tissues.
The helminthiasis They are transmitted from soil contaminated with human feces and cause anemia, lack of vitamin A, malnutrition Asia Mobile Number List and growth delays, among other problems. Foodborne trematodiasis encompasses a group of infections that are contracted by consuming fish, crustaceans or vegetables contaminated with parasite larvae . Hydatidosis (or echinococcosis) is caused by the “dog tapeworm” parasite, which forms cysts in human organs: it is endemic in places in Patagonia where there is a particular ecosystem in which sheep, dogs and humans interact .
Another example is leishmaniasis , transmitted by the bite of infected female sandfly mosquitoes, which in its most serious form attacks internal organs, while in its most frequent form it causes skin ulcerations, deforming scars and disability. The visceral form, emerging in the country since 2006, has a low statistical rate but a very high fatality rate (close to 90%) if it is not diagnosed and treated promptly.
Regarding snake bites , also considered ETDs, Orduña says that the record stopped at about 600/700 annual cases of which 97% correspond to the yarará and that the possibility of encountering this snake today, with a rattlesnake or coral , which are a risk to humans, decreased by 50% compared to two decades ago because the ecosystem of these animals was reduced by “the expansion of all crops, the soy frontier and clearing.
The yarará, one of the dangerous snakes in the country. Photo ShutterstockIn Argentina, 99% of people who suffer a bite quickly access the antivenom serum, prepared by ANLIS-Malbrán. “In Southeast Asia many die from not receiving it,” she says.
Is that the key to avoiding all these pathologies ? Orduña comments, it is human development . “That is the basis. With adequate socioeconomic development, many of these pathologies begin to numerically decrease their incidence and many of them are controlled and become a rarity associated with the wild but without any weight in public health, as has happened with many of these diseases in Europe and the United States”, he concludes.
Mycetoma and other deep mycoses produce chronic inflammations that cause the progressive destruction of the skin and subcutaneous tissues; The taeniasis It is caused by the presence of an adult tapeworm in the human intestine; and cysticercosis is contracted by ingesting tapeworm eggs that then produce larvae lodged in the tissues.
The helminthiasis They are transmitted from soil contaminated with human feces and cause anemia, lack of vitamin A, malnutrition Asia Mobile Number List and growth delays, among other problems. Foodborne trematodiasis encompasses a group of infections that are contracted by consuming fish, crustaceans or vegetables contaminated with parasite larvae . Hydatidosis (or echinococcosis) is caused by the “dog tapeworm” parasite, which forms cysts in human organs: it is endemic in places in Patagonia where there is a particular ecosystem in which sheep, dogs and humans interact .
Another example is leishmaniasis , transmitted by the bite of infected female sandfly mosquitoes, which in its most serious form attacks internal organs, while in its most frequent form it causes skin ulcerations, deforming scars and disability. The visceral form, emerging in the country since 2006, has a low statistical rate but a very high fatality rate (close to 90%) if it is not diagnosed and treated promptly.
Regarding snake bites , also considered ETDs, Orduña says that the record stopped at about 600/700 annual cases of which 97% correspond to the yarará and that the possibility of encountering this snake today, with a rattlesnake or coral , which are a risk to humans, decreased by 50% compared to two decades ago because the ecosystem of these animals was reduced by “the expansion of all crops, the soy frontier and clearing.
The yarará, one of the dangerous snakes in the country. Photo ShutterstockIn Argentina, 99% of people who suffer a bite quickly access the antivenom serum, prepared by ANLIS-Malbrán. “In Southeast Asia many die from not receiving it,” she says.
Is that the key to avoiding all these pathologies ? Orduña comments, it is human development . “That is the basis. With adequate socioeconomic development, many of these pathologies begin to numerically decrease their incidence and many of them are controlled and become a rarity associated with the wild but without any weight in public health, as has happened with many of these diseases in Europe and the United States”, he concludes.