'After coming home from Vietnam, I felt like a parasite had entered my body and was reprogramming everything from my gut to my brain.' -Doug K. Armed only with curiosity and a library card, Kaufmann set out to try to discover the cause of his symptoms. A library book on parasitology at USC Medical School, where he worked on research projects in the 1970's with Dr. Everett Hughes, led him to many answers. He finally understood that parasitic fungus was causing his health problems. 'Every veteran of foreign wars knows that hygiene is the least of their concerns when in a war zone. We were cons
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