Her guts were swimming with parasitic worms.

And here comes the salvation through this parasitic wasp.

This is a parasitic wasp, again, two millimeters long, slender, a very quick and sharp flier.

The morbidity of contagious and parasitic diseases in FBiH in 2001 amounts to 2415 for every 100.000 people.

Now, am I saying that a sizable minority of the world's population has had their brain hijacked by parasitic ideas?

In the total structure of contagious and parasitic diseases in 2001, the most represented one is the group of respiratory contagious diseases with 84,8 cases of diseases, then the group of intestinal contagious diseases with 10,4 and parasitic diseases with 3,4 , while the remaining 1,5 consists of other contagious diseases.

The Programme of Action recognizes that infectious and parasitic diseases continue to be a major affliction of large numbers of people.

It's a parasitic brain worm that has to get into the stomach of a sheep or a cow in order to continue its life cycle.

And in 30,000 square meters of state of the art greenhouses, there, we are mass producing those predatory mites, those minute pirate bugs, those parasitic wasps, etc., etc.

Both in the structure of morbidity and the structure of mortality for children, the main causes are infectious parasitic diseases, respiratory illnesses and conditions arising in the perinatal period.

Sanitary aspects constitute the most serious impact of the process of urbanization, with high rates of incidence of infectious and parasitic diseases that caused by lack of water supply and sanitation.

The New Atheists, for example, argue that religion is a set of memes, sort of parasitic memes, that get inside our minds and make us do all kinds of crazy religious stuff, self destructive stuff, like suicide bombing.

If the rate of infectious and parasitic diseases in a three year period in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is observed, it becomes evident that the trend is, more or less, constant with the exception of parotitis epidemical and virus hepatitis A.

The proposed strategy also complements other major strategies, including the new UNICEF water, sanitation and hygiene strategies for 2006 2015 (E ICEF 2006 6) to reduce the impact of diarrhoeal diseases, parasitic infections and acute respiratory infections on child survival and undernutrition.

Mass immunization has largely eliminated polio. Thanks to new programs of oral rehydration and improved water and sanitation, we have seen marked gains in treating dysentery and other parasitic diseases, contributing to a 27 decline between 1990 and 2007 in mortality rates for children under five.