Life Solved

PARASITES AND POLLUTANTS FT. PROFESSOR ALEX FORD

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"headache tablets, statins, things for cholesterol or things for hayfever or contraceptive pill.... they end up into the nearest river...we drink that water. We use this water recreationally"

 

When you pour a medicine down the sink or flush it down the loo, where do the chemicals end up? Professor Alex Ford has been exploring how the behaviour of sea creatures changes when zombie-like parasites thrive in polluted waters, even causing their hosts to change sex.

 

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Professor Alex Ford – Professor of Biology

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