Excellent lecture on parasites from Jim McKerrow, courtesy of FORA.TV. McKerrow helped me out long ago with information and pictures of blood flukes when I was writing Parasite Rex. But he can deliver great tales about all sorts of critters inside you.
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April 14th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Sadly, I think the woman from Texas may have been saying that her hunting dogs have chiggers.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Good talk. Does anyone know what the video he tries to show is? It sounded interesting.
Tom
April 21st, 2009 at 7:50 pm
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