Socialized medicine doesn't mean anything if you don't socialized it's means which is money. And since at least 15 years they've been cutting in tax and... health care budget. When I was young the collective insurance use to cover dental care and glasses but it been remove since. We use to wait at hospital but it was reasonable and few did complain about it. Today I won't go see the doctor for a cyst in my back I should have checked and removed, for it'll take an eternity. 15-20 years ago I would have went to the doctor on Monday and the next Monday it would have been removed. Now I think it could take 6 to 12 months.

Big insurance company around notably the liberal party are fighting to get the health care system privatized. In 20 years from now the only thing that will remain of our socialized health care system will be it's name and everyone to complain about how bad it is, for there will be no more money in it.

If you read the paper in poncelon's link, you'll see that cysts are on the order of 2 mm. So, as rychan pointed out these are not cysts. Tubifex do sometimes live in close aggregations, with their hardened tubes adjacent to one another. Again, my guess is that this is aggregation of tubifex or another annelid.

>> ^ponceleon:
^ Told ya it was Tubifex!
If you read my links above, they describe exactly what is being shown; the tubifex, when faced with harsh conditions, clump into a "cyst."


That would also explain the protuding tendril seen extending vertically from the last sack in the video. It was just a little worm all along!

^ I don't think it's a cyst. I don't really have any expertise in the area, but my guess would be that the cyst is not a colony related arrangement and it is not a short term transition. I would guess cysts are very small (single worm) and inert.

^ Told ya it was Tubifex!

If you read my links above, they describe exactly what is being shown; the tubifex, when faced with harsh conditions, clump into a "cyst."

^
The post I saw said that they are known to form "cyst sacks." I'll see what I can dig up...

Edit: here's a description of the cyst...

http://www.springerlink.com/content/g50476g52883m413/

Edit 2: They can also survive in areas so heavily polluted with organic matter that almost no other species can endure. By forming a protective cyst and lowering its metabolic rate, T. tubifex can survive drought and food shortage. Encystment may also function in dispersal of the worm.

OMG... one of my siblings had this when he was young (cyst below the eye) that got to the size of a big marble before he had it surgically removed. This was gross, but also fascinating to watch.

>> ^grinter:
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^mauz15, I should have left the 'sebaceous cyst' tag I originally had on this. I hate it when I get blockages in the openings of the meibomian glands... especially if I'm wearing contacts. I had no idea they went that far into the eyelid. Thanks for pointing that out.
So, how deep in the skin does a build-up of sebum (or whatever) have to be for the problem to be a cyst, and not a pimple? (not talking specifically about meibomian glands here).


a cyst is different from a pimple in the sense that the cyst is more like a sac, whereas a pimple is like a blockage, a comedo (whitehead/blackhead), papules (red pimples) and pustules (like whiteheads but deeper) resulting from blockage of a hair follicle, oil glands, and other causes I don't know about. How deep? I don't know, probably a lesion is considered a cyst if it makes it to the second skin layer, which is the dermis.

edit: apparently if it is 5mm across, it is a cyst, but I got that from some regular website so it could be false.

Title changed, and tags altered once more so that people might actually find the video.

^mauz15, I should have left the 'sebaceous cyst' tag I originally had on this. I hate it when I get blockages in the openings of the meibomian glands... especially if I'm wearing contacts. I had no idea they went that far into the eyelid. Thanks for pointing that out.
So, how deep in the skin does a build-up of sebum (or whatever) have to be for the problem to be a cyst, and not a pimple? (not talking specifically about meibomian glands here).

at the fifteen mark it made me interested. right near the very end when the mother load came out, THAT alone made it worth watching till the end. HOLY CRAP !



CAUSE SCIENCE IS COOL

this is the cyst of science !

bill nye the science guy, bill bill bill bill

as gross as it may look to most people, this is a surgical procedure so I'm adding this to *science

That is not a zit. It is a cyst, and it looks to me that it is probably a chalazion

http://www.aoa.org/x9762.xml
http://tinyurl.com/nzt97g

I'm no ophthalmologist, but this is definitely not a pimple/zit/whatever. I will change tags and hopefully be correct about the condition.

PLEASE change the title. Thanks.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis

Treatment

Treatment is often only recommended for people with serious health problems, because the disease is most serious when one's immune system is weak.

Acute
Medications that are prescribed for acute Toxoplasmosis are:
* Pyrimethamine — an antimalarial medication.
* Sulfadiazine — an antibiotic used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat toxoplasmosis.
* clindamycin — an antibiotic. This is used most often for people with HIV/AIDS.
* spiramycin — another antibiotic. This is used most often for pregnant women to prevent the infection of their child.
(Other antibiotics such as minocycline have seen some use as a salvage therapy).

Latent

In people with latent toxoplasmosis, the cysts are immune to these treatments, as the antibiotics do not reach the bradyzoites in sufficient concentration.
Medications that are prescribed for latent Toxoplasmosis are:
* atovaquone — an antibiotic that has been used to kill Toxoplasma cysts inside AIDS patients. [13]
* clindamycin — an antibiotic which, in combination with atovaquone, seemed to optimally kill cysts in mice.[14]

However, in latent infections successful treatment is not guaranteed, and some subspecies exhibit resistance.

I'm seeing in the lit. that most people get it by either eating undercooked infected cats or by eating or drinking water or food that is contaminated by feces from infected cats (and of course, people have pet cats that could be carriers). It just so happens that many many water supplies in Canada and the USA are fed from fresh water supplies run off from fields containing infected animals. I think it's a fair guess to say that insufficient treatment of that water be it from wells or municipal sources could be the middle-man. There is record of occasional outbreaks of infections in which this source is the only reasonable suspect. Bottom line, I think we know who to blame...

It looks like it generally forms cysts in varying places including the brain which winds up effecting serotonin, dopamine, and testosterone levels in the infected individual.

This abstract is easy to read and worth a look. I'd copy/paste it, but that'd be pushing it. Just click:
Waterborne toxoplasmosis - Recent developments

Higher prevalence of toxoplasmosis in victims of traffic accidents suggest increased risk of traffic accident in Toxoplasma-infected inhabitants of Istanbul and its suburbs

Even more interesting (read this one for sure):
Gender differences in behavioural changes induced by latent toxoplasmosis

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