"Dragon width" appears in many waters in Sichuan?Official response!

Due to the recent high temperature

Everyone plays more summer heat

People in many places in Sichuan are in various water bodies

I took a variety of slender insect body videos

"Unknown creatures suspected of dragon width in the waters?"

"Terrible line parasites!"

Video of equal content

Play on various network platforms

It attracts the high attention of many people

There are divergent opinions on the Internet

There are doubts that it is Macada's dragon width

(Also known as Guinea insects)

There are also suspected iron bugs ...

August 15th

To solve this problem

Sichuan Disease Control WeChat public account issued a rumor

Sichuan disease control expert said

Macadana dragon width, also known as Guinea

Adults parasites in the human body and various mammals

Causes Macadana Dalon Worm disease

This disease is a kind of human and animals and animals

Once extensively popularized

Tropical and subtropical regions such as Africa, India

There are only 14 cases worldwide in 2021

Case of human infection of McDonal's Dragon Worm

7 cases in Chad in Africa

There are only 1 case report in my country (1995)

There are many nematodes in the water body of nature

Most of them are not parasitic in the human body

A few for example:

Tiewood, Macada Dragon Worm

Can infect the human body through mouth

Macadana width is infected with the sword flea of ​​the human body or animals because of the accidental eating larvae infection. Ironworm is infected by drinking water or swallowing hosts such as insects, fish, snails, etc. with infectious larvae.

The insects in the video will not drill the human body

Devour containing infectious larvae

Sword fleas, insects, fish, snails, etc.

The key to infection!

Video and photos released according to the network

Combined with epidemiology, biological forms

And conventional monitoring, etc.

Do not support the nematode in the video is "dragon width"

Chief of Chengdu Huaxi Insect Museum

Zhao Li also said

The nematodes in these videos are not "dragon width"

It is a certain nematode parasitic in insect body

Enter the water body

There are many worms in nature

Many are "harmonious" with people and the environment.

So everyone doesn't have to panic

Preventing food -based parasitic disease

Pay special attention to drinking water hygiene

Don't drink wild water

Avoid having raw food that may infect parasites

Insects, fish, snails, etc.

Avoid swimming in unclean water in the wild

Source: Sichuan Disease Control, Xinhuanet

Responsible editor: Wang Zimo

Edit: Wu Yaqi Sun Yan

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