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January 28, 2013

The Hookworm Underground: Will parasite users accelerate the science?

With very little fanfare, something remarkable happened recently. The “Hookworm underground”—the international community of people treating their autoimmune and allergic diseases with parasites acquired on underground markets—made the pages of the journal Nature. Nature is among THE preeminent scientific journals in the world, second perhaps only to the journal Science (although I’m sure some would
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