TAPEWORMS INSIDE ‘BRAINS OF MILLIONS’
MILLIONS of people are living with the effects of having tape-worms in their brain, according to Scientists.
Sufferers of headaches, eye problems, meningitis, epilepsy and dementia may all have the parasites in their brain.
The tapeworms, which live in pigs but enter human beings through undercooked pork, lead to cysts which cause a disease called neurocysticercosis to attack the brain and central nervous system.
Dr Theodore Nash, chief of the gastrointestinal parasites section of the US National Institutes of Health, said, “Minimally there are there are 5 million cases of epilepsy trom neurocysticercosis.”
Before the tapeworm become adults they spend time as larvae in the large cysts. When the body’s immune system attacks the cyst this can cause the surrounding brain tissue to swell. About 50 million people globally are hit by the disease, with sub-Saharan Africa, India and east Asia areas where it is prevalent.
Prof Peter Chiodini, head of the Health Protection Agency’s para-sitology reference laboratory, said: “We diagnose around two cases of neurocysticercosis a month in the UK.”
We remind you of what the Bible says:-
This is confirmation of the wisdom of obeying the ‘food laws’ laid down in God’s word in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14: And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you, of their flesh shall ye not eat. and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you (Leviticus 11:7, 8).
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day (Isaiah 65:4,5). AMEN
