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Because parasites dampen the body's immune system, some doctors have given volunteer hay fever sufferers a drink containing upward of 300 hookworm eggs, which greatly improved hay fever symptoms. Because hookworms become a problem only when they enter the body as larvae through the skin, the eggs passed harmlessly out of the volunteer in the feces.

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