Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD @PeterHotez
According to his biographer, Stanley Wolpert, Gandhi suffered from hookworm and other maladies. Now our ⁦@TexasChildrens
⁩ laboratories have developed the first human hookworm vaccine showing protective immunity, we’re looking into developing it in India

WIKI SNIP
Hookworm infections in humans can last for several years, and re-infection can occur very shortly after treatment, suggesting that hookworms effectively evade—and may interrupt or modulate—the host immune system.[1] Successful hookworm vaccines have been developed for several animal species.[1] On the basis of prior work, human vaccine development has targeted antigens from both the larval and adult stages of the hookworm life cycle; a combined vaccine for humans that would provide more complete protection.[1] Current targets of larval proteins attenuate larval migration through host tissue; targets of adult proteins have been demonstrated to block enzymes vital to hookworm feeding.[SNIP.

Fantastic. Lotsa kids get this and it can screw you up.