Don't leave your bucket of Kava out! (Rat Lungworm Disease from Slug)
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Yikes!
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It is.
Here is an article from the Washington Post about it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ul-rat-lungworm-disease-on-upswing-in-hawaii/
To say that it causes "headaches" is a major understatement. There isn't a cure, but the symptoms don't last for a lifetime. But it is 2 to 8+ weeks of more or less Hell:
'...Humans cannot spread the disease to each other. And the parasites “cannot mature or reproduce in humans,” said the health department.
But the treatments do not cure the illness. People have to wait it out, sometimes with rehabilitation, taking pain medications and steroids to reduce the symptoms, which can last anywhere between two to eight weeks or longer. ...'
On the bright side, if you are a child in Hawaii who doesn't want to eat your salad, you have a legitimate excuse now...But the treatments do not cure the illness. People have to wait it out, sometimes with rehabilitation, taking pain medications and steroids to reduce the symptoms, which can last anywhere between two to eight weeks or longer. ...'
It can cause some pretty serious permanent nerve damage. I think I read somewhere of a person with it who couldn't even stand cloth touching some parts of their skin due to permanent excruciating sensitivity.
Alia
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Yes and this is a very big story here in Hawai'i this morning. Sad for those 6 people. Plus it is Merrie Monarch week on Hawai'i Island. The news media has done a good job in detailing the fact that the 'awa itself is not the problem . The problem is leaving it out over night with some serious carelessness. I always concentrate on good sanitation practices when cleaning the 'awa I make ...very important.
This is the second thing you've posted recently involving "buckets of kava". You don't mess about do you? Here's the rest of us knocking up a quick shell in the aluball and the professionals are just mixing straight into a bucket ;-)
Kavafied
Kava Vendor
Lol...before creating the AluBall...buckets were everything...now I save them for the weekend. Also these guys in the news article broke the biggest cardinal Kava rule of all by leaving a bucket of Kava unfinished
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@Gourmet Hawaiian Kava has said he always power washes his roots, so it should be fine for growers like him and you who are careful.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/...se-after-drinking-homemade-kava-on-big-island
The headline here is interesting to me, in that it makes it seem like the kava somehow causes rat lungworm disease, when the true story is that apparently slugs and snails like kava and will get their krunk on if you leave your kava out.
On another note, in a list of diseases I don't want based on name alone, rat lungworm disease is near the top.
The headline here is interesting to me, in that it makes it seem like the kava somehow causes rat lungworm disease, when the true story is that apparently slugs and snails like kava and will get their krunk on if you leave your kava out.
On another note, in a list of diseases I don't want based on name alone, rat lungworm disease is near the top.
kasa_balavu
Yaqona Dina
It's based on superstition of course, but it's a pretty big no-no in Fiji for kava to be unattended. There should always be someone "guarding" the tanoa.
Zac Imiola (Herbalist)
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What is the superstition ?
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The parasite that causes this disease lives all over the Pacific, including Fiji. (It has been found in Florida also...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiostrongylus_cantonensis#Epidemiology
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