pinworm

One 2014 study found many different versions of these tests accurately detected the parasites causing pinworm close to 100% of the time.

Yet relatively few biologists—and hardly anyone else—are more than faintly aware of parasites beyond the tiny sliver of species such as tapeworms, pinworms and hookworms that are irksome or harmful to humans.

This novel’s density is saturnalian; its satire nimble; academics will tug at its themes, as if they were pinworms, for decades.

Two others promote the use of ivermectin, a drug often used to fight lice and pinworms, to treat coronavirus patients, despite the National Institutes of Health’s recommendation against its use outside clinical trials.

Months into isolation, parents have told me that their kids have come down with mystery fevers, strep throat, lice, pinworms and roseola.