TWiP #8 - Frog legs and parasite tales - a podcast by Vincent Racaniello

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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