Seventeen volunteers let this worm live inside them to help defeat a dangerous disease
By Kai KupferschmidtFeb. 21, 2018 , 4:25 PM
At 12:05 p.m. on a Thursday in February, a lab technician takes a six-well plate containing a solitary red snail and places it in a heated water bath under a strong light. The light and warmth signal hundreds of tiny larval parasites to stream out of the mollusk. Now, the clock starts ticking for Meta Roestenberg, an infectious disease physician here at Leiden University Medical Center. She has about 4 hours to launch a unique, controversial experiment in which she will let the parasites burrow into the arms of four healthy volunteers. If she waits too long, the larvae start to die.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/seventeen-volunteers-let-worm-live-inside-them-help-defeat-dangerous-disease
