![]() ![]() “If an infected person takes immune-suppressing drugs such as steroids or chemotherapeutics, or has a lowered immune system because of a disease like leukemia, the worm can rapidly multiply throughout the body and cause death,” The Guardian reports. However, the parasite can turn deadly at “certain moments,” such as if the person who is infected is taking steroids. It burrows through bare feet, enters a human’s bloodstream, the lungs, and then heads for the windpipe, where it is then coughed up and swallowed, according to The Guardian. The parasite can survive for decades in humans without being detected. Those infected with the parasite, Strongyloides, so far range from a pregnant woman to a two-year-old child. Researchers say the infections likely stem from unsanitary surroundings in the town of Rancho Vista, an unincorporated city, consisting of about 400 homes in total. ![]() RANCHO VISTA, Texas – A deadly parasite that burrows through bare feet has infected 16 people in a small town near Austin, according to a report from The Guardian. ![]()
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