Apparently in the US we are too ashamed to say we have “worms” or “parasites”, so instead we say we have “helminths”. Using this keyword makes google work. This article estimates at least 5 million people (possibly far more) in the US have one of the 6 considered parasites. Other parasites may also be around. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7847297/ (table 1)
This is way more infections than I thought!!
Note the weird symptoms. Blurry vision, headache, respiratory illness, blindness, impaired cognition, fever… Not just IBS and anemia!
(Quoting my recent comment)
Apparently in the US we are too ashamed to say we have “worms” or “parasites”, so instead we say we have “helminths”. Using this keyword makes google work. This article estimates at least 5 million people (possibly far more) in the US have one of the 6 considered parasites. Other parasites may also be around. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7847297/ (table 1)
This is way more infections than I thought!!
Note the weird symptoms. Blurry vision, headache, respiratory illness, blindness, impaired cognition, fever… Not just IBS and anemia!
The author does not appear to be a crank