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Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Agree with quack, but hookworms are a minor player, 90% of cases are asymptomatic, the rest get anemia, but hardly ravaging anywhere. The most common infection worldwide is still Hepatitis B, followed by malaria, Hepatitis C and Dengue. There are 2 billion cases of Hep B worldwide, which in turn increases the risk for hepatocellular carcinoma, which at one point (and maybe still) was the most common malignancy in the world. The most common helminthic infection most likely remains shistosomiasis

Correction---Ascariasis is now the number one helminthic infection

the 1970’S and late 90 ‘s I had about 11 years in the heart of Africa and In late 1950’s 4 years in Algeria I don’t no about the stats but the worms were a problem everywhere