Description

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