Word: pinworm
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...with them hookworm, whipworm and ascarides. Immigrants in the thousands from the West Indies have brought the parasites of schistosomiasis and filariasis. Hookworm, whipworm and Schistosoma mansoni began to appear in northern cities only in 1950; years ahead of them were the amoeba (a cause of chronic dysentery) and pinworm. Estimated schistosomiasis cases in New York City, 70,000; in Chicago, 2,200. ¶When a small boy swallowed a nail which lodged in the jejunum (second part of the small bowel), Atlanta's Dr. Murdock Equen made him swallow a tiny but powerful Alnico permanent magnet attached...
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