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From KQED. From KQV in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim. Coming up on forum, parasites. They're seen as bloodsuckers, freeloaders, and the worst kind of groupies, writes parasitologist Scott Gardner

in his new book, and were conditioned to be repulsed by them. But though they can do great damage to the organisms they latch onto,

parasites are also the unseen influencers of our ecosystems,

essential to food webs and in some cases even beneficial to human health.

We learn more about the understudied parasites all around us.

Join us after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm I'm I'm Ena Kim. Tapeworms, leeches, pinworms, they inspire revulsion,

but chances are you've had one or more parasites living on or in you. The spaghetti-length

worm known as Ascarus, for example, has made its way into the guts of more than a billion

people. And among all known animals, there are more species

that live as parasites than our free living. This hour, we take a closer look at their biology,

how they can hurt us, yes, but also help us, and why it's important to know more about parasites

than we do. Joining us is Scott Gardner. His new book is called Parasites,

the inside story. And he's professor of biological sciences and curator of parasites at

H.W. Mantor Laboratory of Parasotology at the University of Nebraska. Scott Gardner,

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