September 2, 2010

The End of the Affair

In the world of tropical medicine and parasitology “true love” is best exemplified by the eternal spooning embrace between male and female schistosomes (blood flukes).

fluke The End of the Affair

Or maybe not… According to Carl Zimmer, Even Blood Flukes Get Divorced.

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About Chris Nickson
An oslerphile suffering from a bad case of knowledge dipsosis. Key areas of interest include: emergency medicine, critical care, toxicology, tropical medicine, clinical epidemiology, history, literature and the internet-learning revolution. @precordialthump

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