Fearsome Fauna : A Field Guide to the Creatures that Live in You

Hypochondriacs beware -- would you believe that the nastiest creatures in the known universe live inside our bodies? Not content to just find a home & produce offspring in our internal spaces, parasites will drink our blood, eat our cells, & infest our muscles. Here is an amusing & informative look into the secret world of these fascinating creatures. Perhaps the greatest biological success story of all time, parasites have found homes in the vast majority of people on earth & have learned to live in their environment without destroying it (usually). For readers who would like to meet these hardworking beasts -- or learn how to avoid them -- this book tells you everything you wanted to know about parasites but were too disgusted or terrified to ask. Illus.Knutson, Roger M. is the author of 'Fearsome Fauna : A Field Guide to the Creatures that Live in You', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756792787 and ISBN 0756792789.