We’re very excited about our hookworm anemia vaccine and hope it becomes the second licensed human parasitic disease vaccine after malaria and the first human parasitic worm vaccine
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Experimental hookworm vaccine shows promising protection in phase 2 human trial
Hookworm infects an estimated 113 million people globally primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America. It is a major cause of iron-deficiency anemia in children and pregnant wom...
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March 20, 2026 at 11:23 AM
We’re very excited about our hookworm anemia vaccine and hope it becomes the second licensed human parasitic disease vaccine after malaria and the first human parasitic worm vaccine
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Looks like life size hookworm
July 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Looks like life size hookworm
Jimmy Carter fulfilled his ambition and eradicated hookworm within his lifetime
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Jimmy Carter fulfilled his ambition and eradicated hookworm within his lifetime
Do you want hookworm? Because this is how you get hookworm
All, I know it's wet in So. Cal. today, but I'm begging you - please don't take your shoes and socks off while shopping in stores to "dry your feet."
I'm really, really concerned what you'll pick up by doing so.
(Yes, this is a thing I just saw!)
I'm really, really concerned what you'll pick up by doing so.
(Yes, this is a thing I just saw!)
December 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Do you want hookworm? Because this is how you get hookworm
Thinking about how the stereotype of the "slow" southerner came about because so many of them had hookworm
Public health is a goddam gem.
Public health is a goddam gem.
How a Worm Gave the South a Bad Name | NOVA | PBS
Today, hundreds of millions of people in dozens of nations around the world suffer from hookworm infection.
www.pbs.org
November 27, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Thinking about how the stereotype of the "slow" southerner came about because so many of them had hookworm
Public health is a goddam gem.
Public health is a goddam gem.
They were slow! Because they were sick! With hookworm!
April 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
They were slow! Because they were sick! With hookworm!
Rockefeller got us hookworm eradication.
July 14, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Rockefeller got us hookworm eradication.
either that or he has hookworm
August 21, 2026 at 2:37 AM
either that or he has hookworm
Of note: 1 in 3 people in the area have hookworm, a parasitic disease carried by feces that is associated with major health risks, including cognitive impairment in children.
Calling it "illegal DEI," Trump issues EO to shut down a program redirecting human waste away from a rural Alabama area regularly flooded with sewage during climate-change-amplified storms.
The area's population is over 72% Black.
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The area's population is over 72% Black.
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Trump shut down program to end human waste backing into Alabama homes, calling it 'illegal DEI'
A $26 million federal program to help residents of Lowndes County, Alabama, who have dealt with inadequate sewage systems for decades was stopped by an executive order.
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May 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Of note: 1 in 3 people in the area have hookworm, a parasitic disease carried by feces that is associated with major health risks, including cognitive impairment in children.
Those damn people who don't want hookworm and their ivory towers
March 9, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Those damn people who don't want hookworm and their ivory towers
<me, in rags, with a tooth infection and hookworm and constant diarrhea, like everybody back then, walking up to Jesus on the cross>
"How you doin', buddy?"
"Just fine."
"How you doin', buddy?"
"Just fine."
February 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
<me, in rags, with a tooth infection and hookworm and constant diarrhea, like everybody back then, walking up to Jesus on the cross>
"How you doin', buddy?"
"Just fine."
"How you doin', buddy?"
"Just fine."
I just read about the Trump administration canceling a $14 million federal grant to end raw sewage seeping into yards and spreading hookworm in Alabama's Black Belt, and not one headline will refer to this as "political violence."
September 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I just read about the Trump administration canceling a $14 million federal grant to end raw sewage seeping into yards and spreading hookworm in Alabama's Black Belt, and not one headline will refer to this as "political violence."
“Barefoot if possible” enjoy hookworm and tetanus dummy
Posts like this are designed to guilt women into stay-at-home motherhood. Because if this is what counts as "good mothering," then there's no way to be a "good mom" working for pay full-time.
January 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
“Barefoot if possible” enjoy hookworm and tetanus dummy
hookworm and deficient diets, generally
February 11, 2024 at 4:56 PM
hookworm and deficient diets, generally
Between the 1910s and 1980s malaria and hookworm went from being rampant to virtually eradicated. Yes, I’m talking about the United States. That’s what concerted, intelligent, public health programmes can do.
August 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Between the 1910s and 1980s malaria and hookworm went from being rampant to virtually eradicated. Yes, I’m talking about the United States. That’s what concerted, intelligent, public health programmes can do.
What do you mean I don’t care enough about your well-being? I asked you how your hookworm was didn’t I?
August 22, 2026 at 1:55 AM
What do you mean I don’t care enough about your well-being? I asked you how your hookworm was didn’t I?
Gen x loved getting hookworm
August 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Gen x loved getting hookworm
LET'S KILL OFF MUNICIPAL SEWAGE AND SEE IF WE CAN GET HOOKWORM BACK
October 21, 2023 at 2:38 AM
LET'S KILL OFF MUNICIPAL SEWAGE AND SEE IF WE CAN GET HOOKWORM BACK
Imagine if the DNC sent out an email telling its supporters that rural America was no longer the idyllic countryside of our youth but was now the hookworm-infested headquarters of violent and illiterate hillbillies.
Here’s the RNC asking its donors if they’ve ever been to the big city, which it calls “rat and feces infested gang headquarters for illegal immigrants.” (Many of its donors live in big cities.)
July 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Imagine if the DNC sent out an email telling its supporters that rural America was no longer the idyllic countryside of our youth but was now the hookworm-infested headquarters of violent and illiterate hillbillies.
Never comment on a person's appearance unless you know for certain that hookworm isn't theirs.
October 3, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Never comment on a person's appearance unless you know for certain that hookworm isn't theirs.
really key point. before the New Deal and the Civil Rights Movement vast swathes of the south did not have running water or electricity and hookworm was endemic
September 21, 2024 at 2:50 PM
really key point. before the New Deal and the Civil Rights Movement vast swathes of the south did not have running water or electricity and hookworm was endemic