Lehti 11: Muu kirjoitus 11/1994 vsk 49 s. 1207

A widespread but hidden scourge

They're hermaphrodites, not more than an inch long. They're flat. They wiggle. They live for years in the livers, lungs or even brains of at least 40 million people in the world. Some of them produce a deadly form of liver cancer that kills thousands of people every year. And they cost the world billions of dollars a year. As one expert puts it, we're talking about "one of humanity's most widespread but hidden scourges".

John Maurice

The expert is Ken Mott and he's talking about infections caused by tiny flat worms, called trematodes or flukes, that spend part of their lives in freshwater fish and shellfish or attached to certain edible plants. People who eat these trematode-carrying foods uncooked or, in the case of plants…

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