The Neglected World of Parasites: Why Are They Overlooked by Researchers?

In 1985, Scott L. Gardner, a graduate student studying parasites in wild mammals, discovered he had contracted the parasitic worm Ascaris after returning from Bolivia. This experience led him to focus his career on parasites, eventually becoming the curator of the world’s largest university collection of parasites at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Manter Laboratory of […]