How to Use hookworm in a Sentence

hookworm

noun

• Adult hookworms live in the gut, and their eggs are spread through feces.
  — Bradley Van Paridon, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• The waste pooling in yards may have contributed to a rise in hookworm in the population.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 7 June 2023
• That said, most species of hookworms can't migrate that far in humans and tend to just squirm around aimlessly in skin tissue.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2018
• The extent of hookworm infection was properly assessed in the mid to late 1800s.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2014
• The vet team later discovered that the poodle was also suffering from hookworms and skin sores.
  — Fox News, 28 July 2019
• How did hookworm shape the economics of the postbellum southern United States?
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2013
• Kelli later took to Facebook to warn others about hookworms and requesting prayers.
  — Caitlin Wolper, Teen Vogue, 28 July 2018
• Generally, hookworms affect the feet and buttocks and are transmitted through soil or sand.
  — Caitlin Wolper, Teen Vogue, 28 July 2018
• Parvovirus, hookworms and roundworms can be left in the soil and can be transmitted to people and other animals through contact with the infected soil.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 6 Mar. 2020
• Oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought, which is causing more fur seals to suffer from hookworm.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• But research in the past decade has also shown in mice models that the hookworm stimulates an immune response that can help protect human tissue.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 13 Aug. 2020
• The pinworm is the most common intestinal parasite, followed closely by the hookworm.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
• The first drug being produced by the company is a generic treatment for hookworm called albendazole.
  — Dom Difurio, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2021
• Stephens and Zytner were diagnosed with larva migrans, or hookworms.
  — Mary Bowerman, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2018
• Mebendazole is an antiparisitc drug developed in 1972 to treat infections from pinworms, hookworms, roundworms and the like.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 20 July 2017
• Medical researchers have been studying the role of the hookworm, a parasite that causes intestinal disease in humans and leads to anemia.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 13 Aug. 2020
• Many of the problems in those areas have been heavily publicized, from rural hospital closures to the rise of hookworm in Lowndes County.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 13 Aug. 2021
• Beaches and sandboxes are common places to find parasitic hookworms.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 30 Jan. 2018
• There is some evidence that tropical diseases like hookworm are resurfacing in the Black Belt, thanks to the poor sanitation conditions.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 12 Nov. 2021
• Emergencies requiring blood donations run the gamut, and include flea and tick anemia, severe hookworm infections, cancer, and being hit by a car.
  — Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2017
• Emergencies requiring blood donations run the gamut, and include flea and tick anemia, severe hookworm infections, cancer, and being hit by a car.
  — Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2017
• Birmingham: Researchers are once again trying to determine whether the state’s Black Belt region has a problem with intestinal parasites called hookworm.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2019
• Hundreds of millions of people suffer from parasitic infections, like hookworm.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2012
• Black Belt have been a black eye for the state for years, with officials from the United Nations comparing sewage conditions here to developing nations, and researchers finding evidence that hookworm is impacting people in the region.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 31 Dec. 2020
• These crippling and even fatal diseases include African sleeping sickness, a brain-eating amoeba, hookworm, roundworms that infiltrate the lymphatic system, and malaria.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 July 2018
• Other infections, such as hookworms and roundworms, can be transmitted in a practice called coprophagia, in which animals ingest one another’s stool or by licking each others’ anuses, Dr. Nandi said in an email.
  — Christopher Mele, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2016
• The British immunologist slapped a dressing containing dozens of parasitic hookworm larva onto his forearm and let the tiny invaders burrow through his arm and colonize his digestive system.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2017
• Investigations [of] diseases like hookworm and pellagra and attempts to control the spread of malaria, to control mosquitoes, and then gradually take on more and more of these responsibilities.
  — The Atlantic, 27 May 2021
• State health officials took issue with a previous study involving Baylor University that found evidence of hookworm.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2019
• While most people may originally balk at the idea of being infected with hookworm larvae, a new study indicated that hookworms could be a breakthrough treatment for individuals with ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease—the main types of IBD.
  — Sarah Sloat, Health, 26 July 2023

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024