Why doctors are treating allergies with parasitic worms
Hookworms are ghastly little creatures. Tiny, parasitic, and frighteningly invasive, these wriggling hell-spawn consistently rank among leading causes of morbidity in underdeveloped nations, abound in regions of the world suffering from poor sanitation, and have been described by various epidemiologists as “the American murderer” and the “the great infection of mankind.” But there’s a twist;…
