Get this for a cute acronym:
The WIRMS (Worms for Immune Regulation in MS) study ...Some doctor probably sat up in bed and had a "eureka" moment when he thought of that.
Anyhow, the study itself is kind of interesting:
The £400,000, three-year project funded by the MS Society, aims to determine whether infection with a small and harmless number of the worms can lead to an improvement on the severity of MS over a 12 month period...Given that cancers can be fought by the immune system too, is there any anti-cancer parasite out there to be found?
The 25 worms are microscopic and are introduced painlessly through a patch in the arm. They are then flushed out after nine months.
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