In this episode, Dr's J and Santhosh return for their ninth season of medical mischief, kicking things off with info about another plague! Along the way, they cover Schistosome life cycles, the African great lakes, the a_a_A_ disease, safe places to urinate, Italian botanist Prospero Alpini, the menstruating men of Egypt, medical etymology, worm sex and life cycles, katayama fever, bilharziosis, diagnosis, symptoms, long term effect, flavors of infection, the secret source of infection, treatment and more! So Sit back and relax as we begin our 9th season on a fluke!

Further Reading

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/schistosomiasis/biology.html#:~:text=Pathology%20of%20S.,in%20brain%20or%20spinal%20cord.

Adamson PB. Schistosomiasis in antiquity. Med Hist. 1976;20:176–188

Bergguist R, Kloos H, Adugna A. Schistosomiasis: paleopathological perspectives and historical notes. In: Jamison B, ed. Schistosoma: biology, pathology and control. Baton Rouge: CRC Press; 2017. p. 8–33.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30016215/

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