This Week in Parasitism #9: Mala aria

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

On episode 9 of the podcast "This Week in Parasitism", Vincent and Dickson move on to protozoan parasites with a discussion of the early history of malaria.

Download TWiP #9 (59 MB .mp3, 82 minutes)

TWiP is brought to you by the American Society for Microbiology at Microbeworld.org.

Links for this episode:

• Malaria history at CDC


• Radio New Zealand show on hookworms (thanks James!)


• Tapeworm brain infection serious health concern (thanks Jim!)


• Pig farmers try to limit pork tapeworm spread (thanks Gopal!)


• Bizarre tongue-eating fish parasite (thanks Arsen!)


• Letters read on TWiP 9

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