Staten Island is second at thirty-nine percent. Meanwhile, Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan all have Toxocara prevalence rates that range from thirty to thirty-three percent.
Thomas Nutman, chief of the parasitic diseases laboratory at Maryland’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, described how there is still much to be learned about these worms.
“I think the finding of Toxocara is both important and unsurprising. It is really important for us to understand that these neglected tropical diseases, toxocariasis being one of them, are still a huge problem– the extent of which we do not know yet,” Nutman said.
And even as the summer winds down over the next two months, scientists are advising parents to remain vigilant.
These worms and their eggs can weather even the harshest winters by staying beneath the soil and still reemerge next springtime.
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