A person who swims in a pond will get several hundred, or even thousands of parasites into his skin.
Russians urged not to swim in “small bodies of water” due to larvae crawling under human skin
Cercariae (helminth larvae of waterfowl) are dangerous only for Russians swimming in “small rotten ponds,” hydrobiologists said.
A person who has swum in a clean body of water will not develop cercariasis. But in small bodies of water, where there are a lot of ducks, where there is a lot of aquatic vegetation, for example, a fire pond in SNT, the number of these larvae is so high that a person who bathes will get several hundred, or even thousands of parasites into his skin.
In Moscow, at the beginning of July, a serious surge in the incidence of cercariasis was recorded. Russians began turning to dermatologists with complaints of itchy skin, fever and blisters all over their bodies. It turned out that patients swam in ponds to escape the heat.
