In another region this improvement proved to have a major impact on people's health : worm infestation declined from 50-90 % down to 5 % only.
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In September 2012, Stroud stated in a compilation show ( Survivorman Top-10 ) that at one time he had contracted a parasitic worm infestation in his mouth that lasted over a year.
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The whale, which is almost two years old, also suffers from a worm infestation, a skin condition that causes itchiness, and perhaps other maladies, say orca experts who have observed her.
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Beginning with tomatoes and extending tests to a wide range of vegetables, they found the Azomite plots produced heartier plants that were also free from the worm infestation prevalent in the non-treated plots.
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US Drug Enforcement Administration and state testing laboratories report that more than 70 % of the illicit cocaine analyzed in July 2009 was positive for levamisole, an antiparasitic drug used by veterinarians to treat worm infestations.
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Pounded guava and patani leaves are applied to the corpse to prevent maggot or worm infestation while the body dries, the process taking anywhere from two months to even a year until the body is hardened.
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Sap bled from the trees produces turpentine, pitch and tar, all of which were transported down the Pee Dee River to Georgetown to be used on the hulls of wooden boats to prevent marine worm infestation.
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Poor harvests in China, India, and Pakistan last year ( for reasons ranging from boll-worm infestation and leaf-curl virus to poor weather ) meant that American growers had to take up the slack.
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An unexplained prescription only drug called albendazole ( or Zentel ) used to treat worm infestations was also found in hair samples from Paul; this drug is said to be commonly given to homeless people living on the streets.
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It is mainly used in humans in the treatment of onchocerciasis ( river blindness ), but is also effective against other worm infestations ( such as strongyloidiasis, ascariasis, trichuriasis, filariasis and enterobiasis ), and some epidermal parasitic skin diseases, including scabies.
