Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Dickson reads his story about sparganosis caused by the diphyllobothroid tapeworm Spirometra mansonoides.
Download TWiP #8 (60 MB .mp3, 83 minutes)
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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