Parents Are Feeding Parasites to Their Kids With Autism
Every two weeks, Alex Chinitz swallows the strangest of brews: fruit juice with 20 to 30 larvae of Hymenolepis diminuta mixed in. That fancy Latin word is the name of a helmintha tapeworm, to be precisethat can grow to 30 centimeters.The larvae Alex drinks are not visible, nor can he taste them. They are encased in tiny cysts, and under a microscope, they look like seedsonly with eyespots and tails.