Episode 38: Guinea Worms and Human Nature
Tiny Vampires
English - April 30, 2020 14:00 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Society & Culture Places & Travel Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The symbol for medicine, a serpent wrapped around a staff, is displayed on everything from the World Health Organization logo to your doctor’s name tag, depicts the treatment of a single disease, the removal of a Guinea Worm from the patient by slowly wrapping it around a stick over the course of days. This disease is famous for another reason, it is about to be the second disease eradicated from the face of the earth.
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