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...less good news about another old enemy of man: worms. There are some 2,000,000,000 people in the world and around 2,200,000,000 cases of worm infestation (some people have more than one kind of worms), reported the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Norman R. Stoll. Most worms thrive in the tropics, home of half the human race, and a reservoir of food and raw materials for the rest of the world...
...attacks the liver and intestines of 114,000,000 people a year, mostly in the tropics. Nor were there any new drugs for the most widespread worm disease, hookworm, which afflicts 457,000,000 people in the world, including 1,000,000 in the U.S. There is, said Dr. Stoll, no ideal drug for any worm disease, and meanwhile the worm population is keeping pace with the human...
...Song by Ralph Blane, Kay Thompson, George Stoll. Copyright 1945 Robbins Music Corp...
...Says Dr. Stoll: "When we Americans manifest an unbecoming impatience at how slothful other peoples are in undertaking . . . steps to free themselves from [worm infection], let us ruminate on the extraordinary slowness demonstrated by a supposedly widely educated people to protect itself against trichinosis ... by the simple device of eating pork only when the trichinae in it have been cooked, say, to the consistency of medium-boiled eggs...
Hogs get their trichinellae almost entirely from uncooked garbage containing infested meat scraps. "We maintain in the Jersey Meadows near Secaucus," says Dr. Stoll, "a malodorous demonstration of how it is done." Prohibiting this practice would break the chain of transmission, eliminate "garbage worms," and trichinosis...