Cockroaches in an 1950s lab
Today on the BPP, we heard how more people are getting parasitic worms than we thought. A little more digging tells us that in addition to being more widespread than expected, worms are also way, way grosser than we had thought.
December has been a good month for parasites. That usually means a bad month for humans, but our friend ampulex compressa does us a favor by turning COCKROACHES INTO ZOMBIES, and scientists have just figured out how.
Also, it looks like the good folks at Science Made Cool have taken Christmas week off from their Friday Parasite series, but there's a deep archive of things you should be really worried about.
And, this being the season of "best of" lists, your year-end wrap-up is not complete until you check out this compilation of 6 Horrifying Parasites. I could only look at it for a second, but I still caught the words "festering," "foster-tongue," and the phrase "carting your genitals off to the elephantiasis clinic."
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