Former president, Jimmy Carter, is still alive remarkably and he is in his hundredth year. It seems that his true legacy is to almost eradicate or at least reduce enormously the incidence of the infestation of African people by the guinea worm. The Times reports …
A recent study published Cambridge University Press has discovered that the Neolithic builders of Stonehenge suffered from endoparasites which they had contracted from the raw foods that they ate or the food was undercooked. The researchers analysed 19 samples of fossilised faeces in a “midden” …
We are told today (The Times) that there is sexism in the naming of parasitic worms and that it must be stamped out. The bias in the naming of parasitic worms is apparent from the fact that well over a third of the authors of …
