| | Real Cockatoo Facts!: Raccoon Roundworm Baylisascaris |
 | | Raccoons from the deep south tend not to be parasitized with Baylisascaris (i.e., southern Georgia and further south, but it's moving down there as raccoons are transplanted there). |
 | | The only way to truly kill these eggs is to subject them to heat (propane torch or autoclave), or to prolonged extreme cold that dessicates the eggs (not foolproof, though), or to poor a mixture of xylene and absolute alcohol over them (but xylene is carcinogenic and not environmentally friendly). |
 | | Basically, Baylisascaris acts as a roundworm parasite infecting racoons in the intestines; when the fertile embryonated eggs are injested by an unatural host like humans or other animals the parasite undergoes an unatural migration (larva migrans) in the unatural host to other parts of the body like the brain or visceral organs. |
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