Profile: In Brazil, a new effort to wipe out hookworm

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LINDA WERTHEIMER
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
10-29-2005
Profile: In Brazil, a new effort to wipe out hookworm

Host: LINDA WERTHEIMER
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:

If you've never heard of hookworm, you're not alone. Today, the intestinal parasite is unknown in this country, but that was not always the case.

(Soundbite of music)

Ms. BLIND BLAKE: (Singing) Hookworm in your body, your food don't do you no good. Hookworm in your body, your food don't do you no good.

WERTHEIMER: When Blind Blake recorded that song in 1927, hookworm was everywhere in the American South and along ...

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