Quote Originally Posted by Doc Alan View Post
There are more than 100 parasitic worm (helminth) infections of humans. 1 billion people, give or take a few million, are hosts to nematodes (roundworms). Many live with us quite peacefully, others cause bowel problems and anaemia. Trematodes (flatworms, flukes) are also common - schistosomiasis affects 10% of the population in the tropics and middle east, and cause bladder, bowel, or liver disease. Filarial infection causes "river blindness" in several million people, especially Africa and South America. Cestodes (tapeworms) first affect the gut and may or may not cause serious disease. Threadworms deserve their own thread !
Worms are certainly not vital to human health - at best we can co-exist with them and at worst they cause serious disease or death.
doc read wot professor ...anne cooke has to say shes a professor of immunology at the cambridge university..
she talks about the rise in type 1 diabetes cases.. she states type 1 had both genetic and enviromental causes..and its been known for some time that infections could block the development of the condition.... in the uk its increasing by more than 4% each year..and thats faster than can be accounted for by genetic changes..

professor cook also states ..said that it had been shown..that an infection of schistosoma mansomi ( a worm) could prevent the development of type 1 diabetes..... ok ( in mice)