Por favor, estou lhe pedindo pela segunda vez para retirar meu nome e
endereço da sua lista.

Obrigado

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Ignacio Agudo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Dear collegues and friends,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The African snail, Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica (Bowdich, 1822), since
>>> its introduction in Brazil for 24 years until November 2011, was not
>>> responsible the transmission of a single disease in this country.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The main diseases attributed to the African snail, Abdominal
>>> Angiostrongyliasis and the Eosinophilic Meningitis, caused by the parasitic
>>> worms Angiostrongylus costaricensis and Angiostrongylus cantonensis,
>>> respectively, have not been linked directly the African snail in Brazil,
>>> despite the intense efforts by health authorities.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Have been reported in the country today (November 2011), only four cases
>>> of  Eosinophilic Meningitis, the worst disease attributed to African snail.
>>> All of them were caused by eating raw native molluscs, a fact documented in
>>> the technical literature: in the first two the responsible was a slug,
>>> Sarasinula marginata (Semper, 1885) (VERONICELLIDAE), and the last two
>>> probably a limnic snail, Pomacea lineata Spix, 1827 (AMPULLARIIDAE).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Still, and as specialists, distribution wild A. cantonensis in Brazil is
>>> result of multiple introductions of the parasite by rats from the Brazilian
>>> colonial period, due to the extensive trade carried on time with the African
>>> continent. Therefore, the occurrence of this parasite in the country is not
>>> due to presence of Achatina fulica. The A. cantonensis was here long before
>>> the is the first introduction of African snails just two decades. The
>>> Eosinophilic Meningitis was recently diagnosed in the country not by the
>>> presence of African snails, but the effort researchers to connect it to it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> However, Brazil now leads an accelerated extinction process of endemic
>>> native snails in South America, many of them threatened due to public
>>> terrorists campaigns misguided since the year 2003 "Pro Wild African Snail
>>> Eradication" of the environment in Brazil. Among all native species of land
>>> snails, mainly the Families BULIMULIDAE, STROPHOCHEILIDAE
>>> and MEGALOBULIMIDAE, are especially more threatened.
>>>
>>> So, the dissemination of untruths that define the African snail species
>>> as inedible, as intermediate host responsible for transmission of a
>>> significant number of cases of Eosinophilic Meningitis or even identify it
>>> as a transmitter of Schistosomiasis, a very serious disease transmitted by
>>> other native (aquatic) snails, have to stop and must be fought by all  !
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ALLIANCE FOR LIFE !
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A. Ignacio Agudo-Padrón
>>>
>>> PDPM Editor
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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