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There is no medical excuse for most of the worms, said Dr. Norman R. Stoll of the Rockefeller Institute, speaking before an A.A.A.S. meeting in Boston (see SCIENCE). Some parasitic worms are transmitted by insects or other carriers. Seven-eighths of the infestations are due simply to man's "ineffective insulation from his own excretory products...
...Stoll's paper, This Wormy World, was a loud demand that something be done. He feels that worms are shamefully neglected. They lack drama, cause no great pandemics. But they are persistent, ubiquitous and "unremittingly corrosive." There are less than 2,200 million people in the world, Dr. Stoll estimates, and more than 2,200 million worm infestations. (Some people have an assortment...
Worms are multiplying about as fast as the population. By the year 2000 there may be 3,300 million people in the world. But Dr. Stoll is sure that worms will multiply too, and make the most of their opportunities...
Right around Home. The U.S. has its store of worms. In the highbrow town of Princeton, NJ. (where Dr. Stoll lives), 23% of the children were found, in 1943, to be infested with some kind of worms. Commonest U.S. worm is the trichinella, which makes the U.S. its headquarters and infests 21 million people, one-sixth of the population, three times as many as in all the rest of the world. These worms cause trichinosis, with a long list of symptoms: spots on the skin, swellings, nausea, pains all over the body, wasting and general weakness...
...manifold have George Stoll's extracurricular responsibilities become that he has hired two full-time workers to help him and Keller with committee minutes, make phone calls, get speakers. Says he, quietly: "I have always felt that congregations should do more than congregate...