Why you should not go barefoot in other countries.

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hannibal lecter spyderco

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Warning the following video may make you up chuck. With that being said, I don't know how many of you folks get a chance to travel to other parts of the world, but just remember to be careful you never know whats out there. Whats common for them is not common for us and vice versa.

The following video is about a man who got HPV from a cut, while most HPV are sexually transmitted some can enter the soles of the feet etc..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DStwXsmZ3OE&feature=related
 
I saw a show about that guy. As I remember, he had an underlying auto-immune problem that caused that horrible reaction. Even still, definitely worth wearing shoes!

I wonder if the doc who went and checked him out and took biopsies back to the States ever found a way to help that poor man.
 
from what I've been led to believe this is a rare strain of the HPV virus, I hope to god that it never makes it way to the states. Doctors are treating him with vitamin A since his liver is shot, they have managed to surgically remove some of the warts so he looks like he got tree stumps now. Its also amazing how the medical practitioner do not practice contact protection while dealing this patient.
 
I know of a few cases in Brazil where people got a parasite that burrows under the big toe nail as well. The only way to get rod of it is to pry off the big toe nail and dig it out. Talk about painful. One of the most important things you can do in a survival situation is to protect your feet, and take care of them. It pays to stay properly clothed.
 
A colleague of mine's wife managed to get one of those little bugs that drill into your foot while in africa. The little critter borrows into your foot and then as it grows it eats a little cave into your flesh. You also get a bunch of necrosis (dying tissue) around the cavity. She got to the point where the pain in her foot prevented her from walking. Of course, she went to the doctor back here in Canada, but the doc, not being familiar with it didn't know what was going on. Finally, a friend of theirs was a parasitologist and knowing where they visited suggested what it could be. They went back to the Doctor with a book showing the parasite and then he froze her foot and cut out the bugger and dying tissue. Anyways not very fun.
 
I am glad I read this thread and not just open and click! I can do without the nasties this evening..I have enough going on.
 
I'm taking "Human Parasitology" this semester, and the things we see really put a damper on the prospects of foreign travel in general.
 
Yup even soldiers coming back from iraq had little buggers under their skins doctors didn't know what to make of it for a long time till the figured it out. Come to think of it North America is relative safe compared to other parts of the world.
 
hannibal lecter spyderco said:
Yup even soldiers coming back from iraq had little buggers under their skins doctors didn't know what to make of it for a long time till the figured it out. Come to think of it North America is relative safe compared to other parts of the world.
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Only thanks to modern advancements...mostly in the case of immunizations. Still some things that we have and think little about strike terror into citizens of other countries that don't have said ailment.

For example we have rabies and the UK does not. While visiting London, I heard the mention of rabies on several occasions. I guess I shouldn't walk around town while brushing my teeth. :D
 
Looks like they have some filthy diseases over seas. That's why I like to stay right where I am in the good old USA!
 
Never smart to go barefoot in any country. There isn't a place on earth where you couldn't accidentally step on something nasty - from drug users' needles to all kinds of creatures.
 
Elen said:
Never smart to go barefoot in any country. There isn't a place on earth where you couldn't accidentally step on something nasty - from drug users' needles to all kinds of creatures.
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to icecicles....:p
 
When in foreign lands....think twice about eating it, stepping on it or having sex with it....Just a few simple rules....
 
Raskolnikov said:
I'm taking "Human Parasitology" this semester, and the things we see really put a damper on the prospects of foreign travel in general.
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I did a semester on Human Parasitology too! Professor Mannesmann, University of Bielefeld. He did a great slideshow first thing in the morning - so much for breakfast:barf:.
Fun times...
ilten
 
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