Roman Sanitation Didn't Stop Roaming Parasites

03/10/2022 8 min

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Episode Synopsis

Cambridge's Piers Mitchell, author of the 2015 book Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations, talks about the counterintuitive findings in his recent paper in the journal Parasitology titled "Human parasites in the Roman World: health consequences of conquering an empire."