Living Alongside Parasites: A Host's Diary: Funny at times, mostly crazy, entirely scientific Kindle Edition

Glad you came! This book is exactly for you.If you're medical students (my condolences, it'll pass, and you'll be as rich as Croesus and properly grumpy), this is a useful resource with an inexhaustible database for every parasitic delusion you can imagine – from boring single-celled organisms causing bizarre rashes to five-meter worms happily touring the intestines of an unfortunate Thai migrant worker who was unlucky enough to end up in the surgical ER with abdominal pain and leave with a meter-shorter intestine and an unforgettable video of worms merrily dancing out of slowly necrotic tissue.Doctors? Excellent! For the first time, someone will explain the simple things to you, the cornerstones of the science of parasitology. Things you never dared to ask and had no way of understanding until now. True, you'll have to endure my British humor (read not funny) and some musings will annoy you unwantedly, but you'll finally understand what makes a parasite a parasite (a meaningless historical definition), why Toxoplasma causes happy encephalitis (the patient is miserable, but the staff is cheerful and amused), and how on earth you can get infected with so many things in life, just because you accidentally ate stool. An important life tip – don't eat shit from anyone. Not a person, not a dog, not a pig. Just don’t! Oh, yes – be as rich as possible; it dramatically reduces morbidity.Interested in popular science? Fantastic. Here you'll find a lot of science and a lot of nonsense I made up (just kidding, most of it is almost entirely based). It's accessible, it's lively, full of amusing anecdotes (how to make a grand entrance into a room and say – "It's just myiasis!" and exit like a king), and spiced with late-night stories. Really.Don't care about any of this and just want to laugh? Grab a chair and sit down. This guy is about to make a fool of himself like no one has ever debased themselves before.What should you expect when reading this book?There's a lot of organized and up-to-date science here. Even if all my eccentricities tire you out and feel foreign to your spirit, in every chapter (and there are about 10 of them, covering over forty parasites) you'll find a scientific and a comic ID's, an important information on the life cycle, pathogenesis, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic methods, treatment, and prevention of parasitic diseases.This is not a conventional textbook. It was written out of a deep belief that even the most complex and "disgusting" topics in the world of parasites can and should be presented in a fascinating, amusing, and sometimes even provocative way. You should not be offended by blunt remarks; all were written with the aim of sharpening and facilitating the learning of accurate and up-to-date science. On this matter, there are no compromises here.In Living Alongside Parasites: A Host's Diary, Professor B.S. offers a comprehensive yet refreshingly candid exploration of parasitic infections, drawing from decades of clinical experience at the forefront of global health. Read more