Adult iron nematodes live freely in seawater or fresh water, and their larvae are parasitic in arthropods. Domestic distribution in northern and southern provinces, abroad widely distributed around the world. It can infect human body through water source and cause filariasis. In scientific research, it is often used as experimental materials in zoology.

Iron nematodes are mainly parasitic on large arthropods, such as mantis, locust, etc., and people are not their parasitic objects. Iron nematodes generally do not pose a threat to people, but if people contact or drink unclean water containing iron nematodes larvae, they will have a certain chance of contracting iron nematodiasis, causing urinary tract infection and inflammation.

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The key to prevent filariasis is not to drink unclean water, not to eat raw food such as insects, fish and snails, and to avoid direct contact between the lower body and unclean water when entering the water. Suspected infected people can take oral anthelmintics to promote insect discharge, and those who are parasitic in tissues should be surgically removed.

Parasites can change the behavior of the host to achieve better reproduction and survival. If human beings are infected with some parasites living in the brain, such as Toxoplasma gondii, which lives in the brain all their lives, then human response ability will be reduced.

People's Daily Online-Fuzhou Shibazhongxi Scenic Area is surprised that iron nematode infection can cause urethral inflammation.

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