One in four people in Medieval Europe may have had a parasitic roundworm living in their guts
Researchers from Oxford took samples of human remains from seven sites. These included Worcester Cathedral and the former Haymarket in York. Soil-transmitted worms were at each sites, and food-derived tapeworms at four.
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