Deborah Harrell wrote:
> 
> Among the higher "Eeeuwwww!"-factor medical treatments
> are the use of maggots to clean gangrenous wounds, and
> leeches for therapeutic blood reduction; now comes the
> lowly pig whipworm for imflammatory bowel
> disease(IBD).

        Good link.  For me, it is grosser than the other two...
at least with maggots or leeches they eventually LEAVE your
body!
                                ---David

It's not a parasite, it's a symbiote!  : )
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