Simon Brooker quoted in news following recent discovery that 15th century English king Richard III was infected with soil-transmitted helminths (STH), specifically roundworm.
4 September 2013
A recent paper in The Lancet has shown that 15th century English king Richard III was infected with soil-transmitted helminths (STH), specifically roundworm.
Researchers at Cambridge and Leicester who dug up Richard III's skeleton underneath a parking lot in Leicester last year write that they found numerous roundworm eggs in the soil around the unpopular king's pelvis, where his intestines would have been.
GAHI's Simon Brooker spoke to the Associated Press and the BBC about the prevalence of roundworm infection nowadays, estimated at 820 million people.