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Swami
26th October 2010, 09:20
A disease with progression and symptoms that seem straight out of a horror movie has killed at least 20 Ugandans and sickened more than 20,000 in just two months.

Jiggers, small insects that look like fleas, are the culprits in the epidemic, which causes parts of the body to rot. They often enter through the feet. Once inside a human, they suck blood and multiply by the hundreds. Affected body parts -- buttocks, lips, even eyelids -- rot away.

http://www.freep.com/article/20101024/NEWS07/10240475/1001/NEWS/As-bug-spreads-Ugandans-watch-their-flesh-rot-away
Teakai
26th October 2010, 09:27
OMG!!!

I read recently in some book that death was easy - it was getting there that was difficult.

Jiggers looks like a bl**dy difficult way to go.
bashi
26th October 2010, 13:30
The african walk...


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xbusymom
26th October 2010, 15:36
wait a minute.. let me get this straight...??

if the bug enters through the feet to the inside of the body , then how can a TOPICAL medication be very effective?
shadowstalker
26th October 2010, 17:47
wait a minute.. let me get this straight...??

if the bug enters through the feet to the inside of the body , then how can a TOPICAL medication be very effective?

topical meds can seep thru the skin, if they can kill they can cure, in this case hopefully killing the bugs hence curing the patient
xbusymom
27th October 2010, 01:02
oh, I get it now, as opposed to an internal med that permeats throughout the whole body- a topical affects just the portion that is injured?

(sorry, I was never very good at science in High school) LOL
TigaHawk
27th October 2010, 20:43
like drawing ointment (probably misspelt that)

its a jet black cream wich my mother uses, whenever you have a pimple, or something of the such which is infected but under the skin deep enough that you cant break it to clear out the gunk and let it start healing.

a bandaid, with a pea sized ammount of this stuff, put over the target area. leave it a few hours/overnight, come back. it's somehow pulled the gunk in you, towards the surface. like right up to the surface of the skin, so youre able to go pop, clean, let it heal.

just goes to show how something topical can effect under the skin

(if this cream is something you have not heard of i will get my mum to tell me the specifics - just tohught how it might aid people with Morgellons trying to remove fibers?)