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AAP General News (Australia)
10-18-2005
Fed: Aussie scientists infest themselves with hookworms

By Janelle Miles, National Medical Correspondent

BRISBANE, Oct 18 AAP - Australian researchers have become guinea pigs again - this
time deliberately infecting themselves with hookworms.

Three Queensland scientists are walking around with the bloodsuckers in their gut all
in the name of science.

They've infested themselves with hookworms to test the toothy parasites as a possible
treatment for a debilitating inflammatory bowel condition known as Crohn's disease.

Parasitologist Rick Speare, ...

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