Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-18 | Page 4 | Not Nice, but Everybody is a Host to Parasites

i I I I j Not Nice but Everybody 19 Is a Host to Para Parasites ites Parasites may be a horrid wore word to most people but like Ilke a great many other facts acts of life they are apparently apparently apparently inevitable Every human being be ing and every animal above the one one- celled level has em They are trans milted even by kissing kwing there is one mouth parasite that seems to be transmitted transmitted trans trans- only In that way so if you haven't got it Jt youve you've missed some som thing These are among the fascinating facts about a subject usually carefully care fully Ignored that Dr Maurice Mauric C. C Hall of the Uni United ed States department of ot agriculture spoke about the other day under the auspices of Science Service The average American Is Li almost completely unaware of the parasites that surround him or even live in him because these parasites flourish out of in the bodies of ot men arid and animals or concealed under the hair hah and fur said Dr Hall Han but hut they are nevertheless very numer ous OtIS Dr Hegner has recently said that an animal and its parasites are like a zoological park which has been closed for the winter we see the outside out side of ot the the- park but we cannot seethe seethe see seethe the animals in it Practically all animals higher I Ithan than the one celled protozoa have I been found to harbor from one kind of parasite to hundreds of ot kinds I whenever these animals have been examined for parasites Man harbors over a hundred different kinds of t parasites aside from rom the innumerable flies mosquitoes and similar things which attack him as a food supply and anthen then leave him until Jt Is time to feed teed again It is probably safe sate to say that there are at least as many kinds of par parasitic animals as is there are free tree living animals and that the burden which parasitism lays on the In lag ing animals of ot the world may be regarded regarded re re- as one of ot the most common and important of all the burdens which life lite must carry through its its struggle for i