PARASITES & POLLUTION
6 Adult Lives in your intestine and can pro-
duce 1000 eggs per bowel movement
and live many years.
Fig. 8 Fasciolopsis' normal life cycle....................................................
Note that the adult is the only stage that “normally” lives in
the human (and then only in the intestine). Fasciolopsis depends
on a snail, called a secondary host, for part of its life cycle. But
when your body has solvents in it, the other five stages can
develop in you!
If propyl alcohol is the solvent, the intestinal fluke is invited
to use another organ as a secondary host—this organ will
become cancerous. If benzene is the solvent, the intestinal fluke
uses the thymus for its secondary host, setting the stage for AIDS.
Wood alcohol invites pancreatic flukes to use the pancreas as a
secondary host. This leads to pancreatic dysfunction which we
call diabetes. If xylene (or toluene) are the solvents, I typically
see any of four flukes using the brain as a secondary host. If
methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) or methyl butyl ketone (MBK) are
the solvents, the uterus becomes a secondary host and
endometriosis a likely result.
This is a new kind of parasitism, based on pollution. I call
the diseases caused by fluke stages in inappropriate locations
Fluke Disease; it is discussed in more detail later (page 249 ).
Are tapeworms and roundworms affected by solvents this
way, too? This is a fascinating and very important question.
Search for the answer and help others search for the answer. I do
not know yet.