Dracunculiasis, also called guinea worm disease (GWD), is an infection by the guinea worm.

The first well known worm was the Internet Worm of 1988, which infected SunOS and VAX BSD systems.

It is partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm.

Guinea worm disease has been known since ancient times.

But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron's beard that came down on the edge of his robes

For every head is bald, and every beard clipped on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard that went down to the skirts of his garments

For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Dambudzo Marechera's image and his poem THE BAR STOOL EDIBLE WORM. Image posted on his Facebook page.

I am against everything, Marechera declared in The Bar Stool Edible Worm, one of his most popular poems

Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you, says Yahweh, and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

The pork tapeworm is particularly common in Asia, Sub Saharan Africa, and Latin America.

They look clean shaven even with a magnifying glass I do not detect a single beard among them.

Unlike diseases such as smallpox and polio, there is no vaccine or drug therapy for guinea worm.

In some populations, 10 to 20 of females have a beard, usually shorter and thinner than that of the male.

The bootlace worm (Lineus longissimus) is one of the longest known animals, with specimens up to long and up to wide being reported.

Now I'm going to mark on the toughness values for nylon fiber, bombyx or domesticated silkworm silk wool, Kevlar, and carbon fibers.

So even though I didn't grow any taller, I didn't sprout a beard, something had changed My interior dialogue had changed.

They came to us thanks to the prejudice against and fear of bearded men, distracted by the sight of the blood of the child that the man was holding in his hands.

They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.

He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

One example is the tobacco hornworm, which concentrates nicotine to a toxic level in its body as it consumes tobacco plants.

For so long, I told myself that I couldn't have an adventure because I wasn't six foot tall and athletic and bearded.

I hope that you will be able to see not just my Taliban like beard, but also the richness and color of my perceptions, aspirations and dreams, as rich and colorful as the satchels that I sell.

And no matter how long I've spent on the ocean, I haven't yet managed to muster a decent beard, and I hope that it remains that way.

Intelligence collection is a good example, and the elaborate Stuxnet worm that disabled Iranian nuclear centrifuges seems to have been a government creation.

And because I have always been known to be a bookworm, I tried to transfer this love of reading and learning to my daughter.

The silk worm does a remarkable thing it uses these two ingredients, protein and water, that are in its gland, to make a material that is exceptionally tough for protection so comparable to technical fibers like Kevlar.

An old man with a long beard watches over us, and most of us retain a pretty literal opinion of the stories about his Son told in the Bible s New Testament.

The name dracunculiasis is derived from the Latin affliction with little dragons , while the name guinea worm appeared after Europeans saw the disease on the Guinea coast of West Africa in the 17th century.

To generate income from the forest environment, the Government conducted training for women in forestry so they could carry out economically productive activities such as culturing beehives to make honey, using cocoons to make natural silk and encouragement to grow herbal plants.

In a recent event at the Faculty of Law ( El Fateh University) where being the bookworm that I was, I made sure to attend their book exhibition for the opportunity to buy at subsidised prices, I came across a novel called Hunger has many other faces (unofficial translation).

One for extracting oxygen out of the deep sea water, another one which houses this chemosynthetic bacteria, which takes the hydrothermal fluid that hot water that you saw coming out of the bottom and converts that into simple sugars that the tube worm can digest.

What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. elegans. The lessons from that discovery, and others, are pointing to how we might one day significantly extend youthful human life.

These are typical, Mediterranean faces, mostly male and young the oldest seem to be in their thirties. They look clean shaven even with a magnifying glass I do not detect a single beard among them.