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Many parasites are worms: hookworm (800 million people infected), roundworm (1.5 billion), schistosomes (200 million), and the worm that causes Elephantiasis (150 million).
Intelligence collection is a good example, and the elaborate Stuxnet worm that disabled Iranian nuclear centrifuges seems to have been a government creation.
First, humanity's Book of Life has only 30,000-35,000 different words, or genes. This is surprising, because the genome of a tiny worm that had been sequenced earlier contains about 20,000 genes.
How we make do with only one-third more genes than this simple worm remains an unanswered puzzle.
Indeed, whereas the misery that worm diseases cause is extensive and the burden excessive - as much as tuberculosis or malaria - they do not kill immediately.
This is surprising, because the genome of a tiny worm that had been sequenced earlier contains about 20,000 genes.
Similar efforts are underway on many other fronts - the control of worm infections and leprosy, and now a major global effort to bring malaria deaths nearly to zero by 2015.
Indeed, India alone accounts for one-quarter of intestinal worm infections worldwide and more than one-half of all cases of elephantiasis, leprosy, and visceral leishmaniasis.