One Sick Mummy Gets a Double Diagnosis

摘要

The tiny intestinal parasite, Trichuris trichiura, or whipworm, is a bane of children living in poor sanitary conditions in developing countries today and can cause anemia, bloody diarrhea, and occasionally death. Researchers found an amazingly high infection intensity of this parasite in a 200-year-old adult mummy from Piraino, Italy, according to a poster by a team led by graduate student Kelsev Kumm of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.