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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Islamic Law Regarding Pork Supplement QUESTION: And what is the parasite 'Paragonimus' ? ANSWER: This parasite lives in the lungs of pigs. It was discovered by Dr. Mason in 1880. lt is a common parasite which causes pneumonia in pigs. There is still no way of killing the paraisite in the tissues, neither has anyone found a method of expelling them. The epidemiology of the resulting is jaundice.

QUESTION: Now we come to 'Clonorchis Sinesis.' ANSWER: This parasite was discovered by Cobbold (1875) and Looss (1907). Clonorchis Sinesis is a sucking worm, a kind of parasite which inhabits the bile passage of pigs' liver, which is a source of these parasites infecting people in close contact with pigs. The occurrence of the disease in China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Southern India and Vietnam again points to the close association with pigs.

This parasite creates many serious diseases of liver and chest in human beings. QUESTION: What are those diseases? ANSWER: If this parasite is present in the lungs, it may cause pneumonia; if it is in the air tubes it causes suffocation and if in the intestines it causes intestinal obstruction, or acute pancreatitis. Then there is Clonorchiasis, a peculiar liver disease. The liver becomes enlarged accompanied with severe jaundice, diarrhoea and emaciation; it may end fatally.

Medical science, in spite of its strenuous efforts, has not yet been able to produce any specific treatment for it. Complications in the disease are stone formation in the liver and cancer. QUESTION: Are there any more diseases connected with pork ANSWER: Yes. There are "Erysipelas" and "Endemic Haemptysis" (i.e. Bleeding of the Lungs), and "Brucellosis" (i.e. Swine Abortion QUESTION: What is "Erysipelas" ?

ANSWER: This disease is caused by the germ "Erysipelothrix Rhusiopathiae." This disease occurs in acute and chronic forms. The symptom of the acute form are chiefly high fever and reduced activity and appetite. It usually brings rapid death. Chronic Erysipelas causes sloughing of diomond-shaped areas of skin. and there is residual damage to the joint surfaces and the heart valves which may result in lameness and/or sudden death.

The details may be seen in Chambers Encyclopaedia (New Revised Edition 1968), vol.10 under 'Pig' and in the American People's Encyclopaedia, (1960) vol.15 under 'Pig'. QUESTION: And what is its connection with pig?