Word: trichinella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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