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What's eating you? People and Parasites
Stories about parasites, enlivened by the author's own experiences, eg. a description of how it feels to "give birth" to a worm the length and thickness of a pencil. Covers most common human parasites in scientific detail and with humor. Describes how to prepare for a trip to the developing world, what symptoms to look for on your return. Warns reader about ways of picking up parasites such as lice (cooties, bloomer bunnies, vulva vermin). Includes such parasites as vampire bats, tapeworms, roundworms, chiggers. Very funny and yet scientifically accurate.
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