What are the symptoms of red worm disease

When it comes to red worms, many people don’t know what they are, but they are very familiar to people who like fishing. Many people like to use red worms as bait when fishing. In fact, this is a relatively dangerous behavior, because once there is bleeding during the fishing process, it is very likely to suffer from red worm disease. Red worm disease is still difficult to cure, so friends who like fishing should try not to use red worms as bait.

1. What are the symptoms of red worm disease?

1. The main symptoms are jaundice, anemia and fever, which are mostly latent infections. They often occur in summer and autumn with a high incidence rate. It is fine when the hands are not bleeding, but it is easy to get sick if you come into contact with red worms after bleeding.

2. If you eat water or food contaminated by egg cocoons, it will cause chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. Earthworms are also hosts to many pathogens. When anglers are scratched by fish hooks or other objects, the pathogens will take the opportunity to invade the human body and cause various diseases. In particular, the Gram-positive Vibrio vulnificus often carried by earthworms is the most harmful to the human body. If the weak and sick are infected, it will be life-threatening.

2. Red worms may carry dangerous pathogens

Red worms grow and reproduce in large numbers in stagnant water and sewage. The characteristics of this type of water are that it is dirty, with domestic garbage and animal carcasses everywhere. The water quality is seriously polluted, and it is a breeding ground for various harmful bacteria. Therefore, the growth environment of red worms is destined to make them very likely to carry a large number of dangerous pathogens. As for the online rumor about scalding red worms in boiling water before fishing, the author is skeptical. First of all, many germs need to be killed under continuous high temperature; secondly, do the red worms still have value as fishing bait after being initially scalded? Instead of going through so much trouble, it is better to use commercial bait or earthworms.

3. Be careful of red worm eggs entering the human body through wounds and reproducing

Bloodworms are chironomid larvae and are not fully developed enough to lay eggs. However, chironomids lay a few or dozens of eggs each time, and there is a natural order in which the eggs are laid, and the time when the red worms hatch is also in a certain order. The chironomid eggs are very small and difficult to see with the naked eye. These small eggs are likely attached to the bloodworms. When the angler has wounds, tiny chironomid eggs may enter the human body through the wound and reproduce. If the tenacious red worms grow in the human body, they will be difficult to eliminate and may cause various diseases.