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Special Lessons In this series, today's successful men and women in their respective fields visit the schools they attended in their youths to enthusiastically talk to today's children about the roads they took to become what they are today. The Roundworm Doctor's Parasites Are Our Friends DC119906
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･NHK ･42 min. ･M/E & English Version |
Prof. Koichiro Fujita is known for his unique way of describing the ecology of parasites. He takes specimens of parasites into the classroom, and teaches in an easy fashion by relating his own humorous experiences. The children get all excited when they experiment dissecting mackerel and find Anisakis in the fish's internal organs. Prof. Fujita pointedly maintains that a fixation on cleanliness through the excessive prejudical elimination of parasites has resulted in the spread of modern diseases such as atopy. The children have learned the importance of living together in symbiosis with "dirty things" like parasites. |
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