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Fearsome Fauna: A Field Guide to the Creatures That Live in You [Paperback]

Roger M. Knutson (Author)
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-This well-written tour of the human parasitic world presents fascinating and extremely unsettling scenarios. Consider a 30-foot tapeworm setting up housekeeping in someone's intestines, an amoeba (which grows in poorly cleaned hot tubs) that can destroy the brain within a few days, or coughing up a 10-inch-long white worm. Primarily contracted by contact with human or animal sewage, parasites can live in just about any system or organ within the human body. Most people tend to feel that such scourges can't happen in civilized parts of the world with proper sanitation. This book will put that lie to rest. A cat, the air, fresh fruits and vegetables, and undercooked meats can all be a vector for squatter parasites to colonize the body. A short bibliography, a succinct list of dos and don'ts to avoid infection, and an index make this a valuable reference tool. Readers will find themselves both captivated and repelled by this treatise on our hidden companions.
Carol DeAngelo, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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"You might want to spend the rest of the day scrubbing yourself under a hot shower after you read Furtive Fauna."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"This off-beat guide reads like a science textbook that comedian Jerry Seinfeld and "The Far Side" cartoonist Gary Larson got ahold of before it went to press."--Santa Barbara News-Press
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5.0 out of 5 stars Parasite Love and Hate, Jun 22 2000
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This review is from: Fearsome Fauna: A Field Guide to the Creatures That Live in You (Paperback)
This book is very well balanced in its representation of parasites and their role in the world in which we live. At a time when there is an alternative medicine craze about evil parasites that are supposedly so prolific that they are the root of all that is wrong with the world, it is nice to read a well thought out analysis of how we are truly affected by the micro-organisms that live within us.

I would have liked more actual pictures, at time the book's text was descriptive, but confusing. Better graphics would have cleared some things up.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Informative, Sep 3 2010
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This book was in excellent condition and delivered on time. I love this read, super easy yet super informative. I learned so much and have been using it for parasitology class!

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3.0 out of 5 stars field guide it is not, July 29 2004
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although format size emmulates field guide this book is just ordinary. It would profit from better sketches or even picture. the topic is great this one let me down.
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