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- Title
This Wormy World.
- Authors
Cowper, S. G.
- Abstract
The article briefly discusses the exposure of Nigerian children to parasite worms. Children born in a Nigerian village is almost bombarded by parasitic worms soon after birth throughout their life. In both rural and urban environments, the water used for drinking and domestic purposes is a source of schistosomiasis and guinea worm. The vegetables and meat that they consume is a source of tapeworm, roundworms and whipworm and also lung fluke where freshwater crustacea are consumed. The soil on which they walk barefoot infects them with hookworm and strongyloidiasis and the profusion of biting insects with onchocerciasis and filariasis. Non-biting insects, dogs, cats, goats and poultry in the houses and yards assist the mechanical spread of the intestinal helminths, and the use of human night soil as manure increases the risk.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; CHILDREN'S health; PARASITES; WORMS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; GUINEA worm; TAPEWORMS; HOOKWORMS
- Publication
Clinical Pediatrics, 1968, Vol 7, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
0009-9228
- Publication type
Article