«The Ob Disease»

N.I. Yurlova

“A human being as an environment”… This wording does not sound conventional, does it? Nonetheless, this is a well-known fact: our body is a sort of “microcosm”, a harbor for myriads of living beings, although of minute size. The majority of our lodgers are quite friendly: the microorganisms inhabiting our mucosae and gastrointestinal tract are good payers assisting us in digesting food, supplying us with vitamins, and so on. However, there are other relationships, along with the mutually beneficial interactions, which range from neutral to killing in its proper sense. Our “hero”—the liver fluke— is a parasite living at the expense of another organism (the host), causing damage to the host and yet not killing him at once.

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