Near Detroit, the ribbon farms were about 250 feet wide and up to three miles long.

People who live with someone with the tapeworm have a greater risk of getting cysticercosis.

It is usually acquired by eating foods or water containing the tapeworm's eggs.

The tapeworm eggs are from feces of a person infected with the adult worms, a condition known as taeniasis.

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

Participants should bring a plug adapter kit for shavers, tape recorders and other small appliances.

I submit that the intelligence of a lancet fluke is down there somewhere between petunia and carrot.

Well, it's because its brain had been infected with a lancet fluke that was needed to get into the belly of a sheep or a cow in order to reproduce.

Strip farming helps to prevent mass erosion by having the roots of crops hold on to the soil to prevent it from being washed away.

Some qualified voters didn't get their bar codes others feared that employers might use them to learn how they voted.

From there, the ribbon farm plan situated along rivers was carried to other parts of the French colonies, and diffused into some parts of the Spanish colonies.

In the United States, ribbon farms are found in various places settled by the French, particularly along the Saint Lawrence River, the Great Lakes, and the Detroit River and tributaries, and parts of Louisiana.

When our ancestors moved out of the African forest onto the savannah more than a million years ago, they rapidly became effective predators. Sharing prey with pre existing carnivores, they acquired tapeworms that originally inhabited only hyenas, large cats, and African hunting dogs.