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Blood worms
Once tv'o Irotherss' rm, nd .ve. r.1 . , iheq oecided 'o :11o,,c to
a new vill-ye. ,4%t-r c1bi;ni" c t.. ',i, rc.I r n, ch; i a nearlby town.
trey built new houses sar ten iejr a W;rin.Ibey fcjurUnr that tmiles
river t. dr:,i, waier i t rattl r, actch had its own well,
did not gather at th
on
which seerned to he ne-cmers 1rther ;: , After fini hi:ng wor!e
horne. After
the farn each clay, the brotheis bhathed in ;' ril.er belore qod.
three months, they both ber-I hivnn be!y pains and snoi started noticinq
blood in thairrine. They, thourJh Jthat the tov;nsr-.jclcp1; were poisonrng
them, and went to corm;ploin.
Upon ixplaining their troubles, the
brothers were told that years before
this had been a probiem iar the rest of
thealaqjers, too. The peoole l d
been about to move their village to
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A,- .---.--- another ste when a health worker had
- . advised them that the disease came
\x.' .. .,-:t~,.' fron tiny orgqan,.ms living i - pculs.
and soeainn where people bathed.
Th.se baby worms went through the
skins of the bathers and traveled throUthi the blood to their bellies. The
villagers also learned ,hat the eggs of the wormrs were pass.d in peopie's
urine or sliit, and would bf, worned L", r'rn into ttkie 'oois.
The people said that up-on !hea.vice of the h'; worker, they had built
and begun to usP latrine, to burV tnc;r shiiL -1hey also nad dug wells to draw
water for dr'nking and w-si::nq. i',se 'ho. ',.wh' were di had .:ompleted
pn id 1 ody rifLlnwere
no;
treatment at the hospiral, wi,: k:irj (iil,f.!"y
longer a probern in their
The -we,uoth;.rs fuior..iod ' ~an: u Le resl o,the villagers, and
soon becme nealthy agi.
Child spacing
A father arid his son were p!n,-,tng 1o,:. The.; Fon asked his father -whythe
;oi:.-i r ore nor hectere. The
corn wasn't planted closer to,ethe" :,o; :ier
father explarined that if there is spc. e betwe:n rhl plants, They grcw strongrer
and healthier and produce nore ­rain.
Can Vou siee the reiationship between
little corn plants and childrIren?
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