Ringworm

mete

mete

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The NYC media has reported cases of racoon ringworm.This is very rare but dangerous, even fatal .One teenager lost an eye and an infant got brain damage.The advice was to supervise your children and teach them not to eat animal feces !!
 
Thanks for the heads up. I know nothing about this or the disease but I walk my dog quite often in Riverside Park which currently has a fairly sizeable raccoon population. Need to go google.
 
should of read this before I fed my kids the poo poo platter for dinner LOL... nah raccoons are one of my favorite animals, but they are a venerable hodgepodge of disease. they are currently the number one rabies transmitter on the east coast as well... I had people ring worm I picked up form the mat back in my gung-ho jujitsu days... it was a pita, Can't imagine losing an eye.... thanks for the heads up, I'll be double sure to wash my sons hands after we play outside.
 
Ive had a small patch of ringworm appear on my arm a few times before. Apparently it comes from working with cattle, which I do.

A hydrocortizone/antifungal cream clears it up in a few days. Not sure about racoon ringworm though.
 
yep, get some of that anti-fungal foot creme, it works within a few days.

fungus is fungus, it shold work on racoon ringworm just fine.

~jon
 
Hey mete,

Don't you mean Raccoon roundworm? Baylisascaris procyonis?

You can also contract it from smelling infected Raccoon feces, IIRC. We had a thread about it quite awhile ago. There was a young boy living in my city that contracted it last September.

Doc

Here's a link to a bunch of information at the CDC

A quote from the newspaper article from last September: "The only way for a human to get the disease is by eating an infected raccoon's excrement, although it can be transferred through dirt contaminated with feces." With kids, who knows what they stick in their mouths?
 
DOC-CANADA said:
Hey mete,

Don't you mean Raccoon roundworm? Baylisascaris procyonis?

You can also contract it from smelling infected Raccoon feces, IIRC. We had a thread about it quite awhile ago. There was a young boy living in my city that contracted it last September.

Doc

Here's a link to a bunch of information at the CDC

A quote from the newspaper article from last September: "The only way for a human to get the disease is by eating an infected raccoon's excrement, although it can be transferred through dirt contaminated with feces." With kids, who knows what they stick in their mouths?
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Yeah Doc. I couldn't figure out what in the hell Raccoon Ringworm was. I finally found an article that says it was mis-reported. It is actually Raccoon Roundworm that infected the Brooklyn youth.

Linky to the story: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/05/03/2009-05-03_raccoon_disease_hits_brooklyn_teen__tot.html
 
Sorry, either the tv person said the wrong thing or I heard wrong .In any case wild animals can carry various diseases so don't let your kids think they are cute and cuddly !!
 
Yeah mete. That article in my link says they reported it incorrectly. Just goes to show how fast and dangerous the media can be at reporting information that is incorrect, doesn't it? Scary really.
 
Jewel weed is also anti-fungal and will cure ringworm, athletes foot etc.--KV
 
Had wondered when ringworm became fatal. My cousins kept it and all we did was put the juice from a walnut on it (the outter hull that contains the nut in-shell).
 
I used to work on a dairy farm and got a BAD!!! case of the stuff. Creams wouldn't touch it. I finally got rid of it with the pills. It took 3 years for every last bit to go away. This stuff can be nasty, get it treated as quickly as you can.
 
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