Out of Africa: what is an allergen?
Penicillium mould and spores. Credit: David Gregory and Debbie Marshall, Wellcome Images. Film lovers will be familiar with Hitchcock’s ‘MacGuffin’ – the term he used to describe ‘the thing that...
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Mother and baby clinic, Entebbe, Uganda. Parasitic worms are a major cause of malnutrition in Africa. Health researchers have made major strides in combatting these infections, but some treatments are...
View ArticleThe end of a seven-year itch
Hookworm teethCredit: AJ Cann, flickr It started about seven years ago. I thought it was just a fleeting fascination but the seeds had been sown for a lifelong affair – I was hooked. I would tell...
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