The stereotype of the "lazy Southerner" may have been caused by widespread hookworm infections in the American South.
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Rachel Nuwer’s NOVA Next Article—How a Worm Gave The South a Bad Name: [ Ссылка ]

The CDC on Hookworm: [ Ссылка ]

Health Affairs—How Four Once Common Disease Were Eliminated From The American South: [ Ссылка ]

Sabin Vaccine Institute on the Human Hookworm Vaccine: [ Ссылка ]

The New Yorker—The War of the Worms:
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The following videos and images were use courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center. Thank you!
Pot Belly: [ Ссылка ]
School Children with Hookworm Disease: [ Ссылка ]
County Dispensary: [ Ссылка ]
Unhooking the Hookworm: [ Ссылка ]

Hookworm - Necator americanus (New World hookworm)
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Hookworm filariform larva. Nematode, worm, parasite.
CDC/Dr. Mae Melvin

Hookworm egg undergoing the process of cellular division
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Newspaper Article
Herald Democrat. October 29, 1909

Historic diagram showing unsanitary placement of a farm house privy
CDC/Minnesota Department of Health, R. N. Barr Library; Librarians Melissa Rethlefsen and Marie Jones

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