Parasites Over Eons
January 10, 2023 | Terry Sharrer
This piece isn’t our usual fare, but it is a reminder that the landscape of human pathogens is wide and deep over time. “The first endoparasite identified within mummified human remains was by Sir Marc Armand Ruffer in 1910. What he found were the calcified eggs of Schistosoma haematobium, the cause of schistosomiasis, in the preserved kidney of an Egyptian mummy dating to 3200 BCE. Today, the prevalence of schistosomiasis as a parasitic disease is second only to malaria worldwide.” MORE WITH VIDEO
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