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raccoon roundworm (baylisascaris procyonis)

How many people have heard of this? My wife has been reading about this and has decided I should sell my dogs. She doesn't want my dogs to become infected and bring it home where our kids could be exposed to it. She's sure the kids eat enough dirt that they will get eggs in there mouths.
Just wondering if anybody has any usefull information.

i seen something about it on animal planet a while back on a show called monsters inside me hasnt stoped me though

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Wow dont think I would sell my dogs. I am gonna have to do some research...this is the first time I have heard about it.

I think this is just an excuse..there is so much that a kid can get infected with. I think theres probably something already around there. Seems to me it just gets blown up like everything else.

Maybe the wife just doesn't like you hunting all the time...thats what came from my wife when I read this to her. LOL

Thats my 2 cents...

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heard about it 20 years ago when doin taxidermy work.cooner and bloodlines both had a article about it years ago.

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I skinned one last fall that was completely full of round worms. It's pretty gross, his gut busted open when we were pulling the hide.

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Get you one of those Safe Guard dewormer blocks and set it out where you hunt. Maybe your wife will let you keep the dogs.

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LOL, hope she never reads about head lice as it may be the end of the kids sport playing days.

Hope you don't have any of these creatures around you as they are carriers too - mice, squirrels, rabbits, birds, and woodchucks.

We have 3 kids, 2 walkers, and 2 mixed breed dogs. And honestly I don't think our kids have ever gotten sick off of something our dogs brought home. I myself was raised around hounds. My dad has had them longer than I am old, I am 27 and I never caught anything from them either. My kids are always playing with our dogs. If a kid is going to get something they will get it no matter if you have dogs or not. Hopefully she lets you keep your dogs, I know I would never let my husband sell his hounds no matter what. Those are our 4 legged children. Good luck.

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He may be ugly but he looks good on the wood.

You definitely don't want to get it.

You get infected when you ingest the eggs that have been pooped out by the coon.

Coons can poop out 45,000,000 eggs per day.

70% of coons have it.

The eggs can live for years in the dirt.

Infants and toddlers are more likely to get it but adults can too.

It can be fatal in humans.

Here's a good source of info on it from the CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol8no4/01-0273.htm

The article claims coons are one of the fastest growing wildlife populations in the country. It also says only a handful of cases have been reported in humans but it's expected to be misdiagnosed in many cases.

This can lead to blindness, and sometimes death. since a high percentage of coons have it, ( it doesn't effect them much). coondogs could get it through eating coon crap.Since coons often use the same spot to crap they will sometimes carry the eggs in there fur. this would be the most likely place a dog would get it. If a dog gets it they should be effected like humans and you should know something is wrong. on a few sights they claim to have tested dogs that are host animals. This is the main concern. If a dog was a host since eggs crapped out can live for years in the dirt. even if you romve the crap some eggs could still be around . if a child gets this it will most likely ruin there life.

I think the odds are pretty slim and don't plan on selling dogs I just wondered if anyone had heard much about this.

Your children have a better chance of contracting MERSA in the gym dressing rooms..

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BLCKRIVERBONES had it correct but the eggs live up to 40 years in the dirt. It was in monsters in me. Keep the dogs you can sell them and move and still get it with the dogs and coon. One five years ago could have craped there and the eggs will be there.

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Those numbers a cycles sound like any old regular roundworm. What's different about this one?

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Originally posted by l.lyle
Those numbers a cycles sound like any old regular roundworm. What's different about this one?

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Wouldnt worry about the kids ubless they start draggin their butts across the carpet, but you might suggest that they stop eatin dirt,

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Originally posted by BLCKRIVREDBONES
once ingested it will hatch and can migrate through your body and into the brain.

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does anyone know how often we should worm our kids and what we should worm them with and can i get it at southern states!!!!! llooll!!!!!!!

man after going to that sight BLCKRIVREDBONES put on here i might want to worm myself, it sure is alot of scary stuff out there.i know from now on i am going to skin coons just like plunging the toilet,with a tightly closed mouth!!!

i just googled this and the first website had a list of reported cases of raccoon roundworm in humans. only 11 cases have been reported since 1980. but there could be a lot more that just haven't been reported. it also has the states they were reported in. it looks like california might not be a good place to be coon hunting according to the table.
its a good thing not many people get it cause it seems like a pretty serious deal.

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Originally posted by va.b&t
does anyone know how often we should worm our kids and what we should worm them with and can i get it at southern states!!!!! llooll!!!!!!!

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When I was a kid an old fellow that would take me coonhunting told me when he was a young man he got a case of pinworms. He said they would almost exit and then they'd whip and wiggle around and almost drove him crazy. He said he went to the doctor and that's when he took up chewing tobacco. He could tell it make you cry.LOL