Hookworms cure Athsma - go walk in feces in the third world
On Kuro5shin, they’ve got a really interesting article on a guy who claims to have intentionally infected himself with hookworms to cure his asthma. That’s not all. He says he went to Cameroon to walk in latrines to get infected. Unbelievable, but very interesting.
Here’s what one looks like:
It brings to mind that story that came out a while back about a parasite, Toxoplasma_gondii, that controls the minds of rodents; it makes them fearless of cats which can kill them. Maybe this hookworm story isn’t so far-fetched.