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Studies On Nebraska Parasites, Henry B. Ward
Studies On Nebraska Parasites, Henry B. Ward
Studies from the University of Nebraska Zoological Laboratory
The intimate relations in which domestic animals stand to man have always made the transfer of parasites from the one to the other a matter of much greater probability than exists between man and the other forms of animal life. It is but natural that the most common species of human tapeworm come to man from his two chief sources of animal food-beef and pork. The chances of accidental infection, however, are evidently much greater in the case of those forms that are intimately associated with man, and hence clearly greatest in those he holds as household pets,the dog and …