{"id":1364,"date":"2025-01-30T16:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2025-01-30T16:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:07:19","slug":"i-could-feel-the-worms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I could feel the worms\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCF7030-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCF7030-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCF7030-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCF7030-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCF7030-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCF7030-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/worms-loiasis-neglected-tropical-disease-west-africa\/\">The Telegraph, 29 January 2025<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Neglected victims of Loiasis find hope in a remote research station<\/strong>:  <br><strong>Millions of people are infested with parasitic worms without relief \u2014 but this may soon change<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albertine Badol\u00e9 does not remember when a worm first wriggled across her eyeball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was many years ago, but what she can still recall is the itching and the swelling in her face.<br>\u201cSometimes when I slept, I could feel the worms, there were little lumps on my body, and my eyes&#8230; It was like things were moving inside me,\u201d the 54-year old says, sitting outside her house in the remote village of Sindara in the rainforests of Gabon. \u201cIt was too much.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/worms-loiasis-neglected-tropical-disease-west-africa\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nqphotography.com\">Photos by Nyani Quarmyne<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/worms-loiasis-neglected-tropical-disease-west-africa\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph, 29 January 2025 Neglected victims of Loiasis find hope in a remote research station: Millions of people are infested with parasitic worms without relief \u2014 but this may soon change Albertine Badol\u00e9 does not remember when a worm first wriggled across her eyeball. It was many years ago, but what she can still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[384,385,388,392,394],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}