EPISODE · Apr 22, 2010 · 1H 23M
TWiP #8 - Frog legs and parasite tales
Dickson reads his story about sparganosis caused by the diphyllobothroid tapeworm Spirometra mansonoides. Host links: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Links for this episode: Spirometra life cycle (jpg) Dickson on vertical farming (CNN episode on YouTube, thanks Jesse!) Laboratory identification of parasites (CDC, thanks Michael!) Gold nanoparticles take out brain parasite (Cosmos Magazine, thanks Gary!) Letters read on TWiP 8
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