Helminths
worms
 EPA list
Primary
Pathogen
 Heart
disease
 Cerebrovascular
disease
 Respiratory
disease
 Pneumonia
 Blood
 appendicitis
 Eyes
 Liver
Ascariasis
 X
   X
   X
        
Caenorhabditis
elegans
     X
 X
          
Hymenolepis
nana
 X
           X
    
Necator
americanus
 X
     X
   X
      
Taenia
 X  
 X
 X
         X
  
Toxocariasis
 X
 X
 X
 X
       X
 X
Trichuris
 X
 X
 X
   X
 X
 X
    
                   
                   
HELMINTHS -- WORMS

By Jim Bynum, VP                                                                                                                                                                                    1/1/2009
Help for Sewage Victims

EPA claims sludge is safe because it does not test for any helminths  listed as: 1) Infectious characteristics (RCRA);
2) disease causing agents (CWA - CERCLA); and 3)  Etiologic Agents (CDC) The Public Health Security and
Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002,  (UDSDA 9CFR 121 & 7 CFR 331) and hazardous waste rules
Part 261.

C. elegans is so hearty that it was the only living creature to survive the Columbia space shuttle disaster. When the
shuttle broke up, it was carrying more than 60 scientific experiments, with animals including bees, fish and spiders.
The other animals perished, but the C. elegans were found in the rubble, swimming in their Petri dishes inside a metal
locker, totally oblivious to the tragedy.
May 4, 2007  http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/5/4/thePetriDishOrganismsToModel

Title: PERSISTENCE OF ESCHERICHIA COLI 0157:H7, SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROTYPE NEWPORT, &  SALMONELLA ENTERICA
SEROTYPE POONA IN THE GUT OF A FREE-LIVING NEMATODE,CAENORHABDITIS  ELEGANS, & TRANSMISSION TO PROGENY &
UNINFECTED NEMATODES    

Table 4  disease and death