Parasites: Obama gets his second namesake species
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#1T5M4)
For the second time in recent years, US President Barack Obama has had a newly discovered parasite named after him. In 2012, Paragordius obamai, a new nematode (roundworm) was named after the 44th President of the US, whose father was raised in Kenya where the parasite is found. Now, retired St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana parasitologist, Thomas ["]