In this video, I adapt a chapter from Robert Desowitz’s book, New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers to tell the story of the fish tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium latum in these women when they cooked gefilte fish.
BREAKING
- LabCorp will begin testing for monkeypox: CDC announcement
- Denmark reports decrease in typhoid and paratyphoid cases, Probably due to COVID-19 travel restrictions
- Panama reports 1st monkeypox case, Minister of Health calls on the population to remain calm
- Vietnam records 15K additional dengue cases in 10 days, Country total now 92,000
- Connecticut reports 1st monkeypox case in New Haven County resident
One thought on “Jewish Grandmothers in New York City and Fish Tapeworms”