Word: onchocerca
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Worms, with the help of the gnats, make gnomes of these mountain peoples. The worms are a species of Filariae, called Onchocerca caecutiens, about one and one-quarter inches long, slimmer than a hair and white. When they get into the skin and breed, they soon form a network of colonies on the skull, resembling sodden felt and causing cranial protuberances. Wandering worms and their excrement give rise to the other gnomelike appearances...
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