The stereotype of the "lazy Southerner" may have been caused by widespread hookworm infections in the American South.
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Rachel Nuwer’s NOVA Next Article—How a Worm Gave The South a Bad Name: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nat...
The CDC on Hookworm: http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/hookworm/
Health Affairs—How Four Once Common Disease Were Eliminated From The American South: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cont...
Sabin Vaccine Institute on the Human Hookworm Vaccine: http://www.sabin.org/programs/vaccine...
The New Yorker—The War of the Worms:
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/element...
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Pot Belly: http://rockefeller100.org/items/show/...
School Children with Hookworm Disease: http://rockefeller100.org/items/show/...
County Dispensary: http://www.rockefeller100.org/items/s...
Unhooking the Hookworm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqBoT...
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Hookworm filariform larva. Nematode, worm, parasite.
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