CHAPTER VII
Kennon stopped at Blalok’s house long enough to tell the superintendent what was causing the trouble. Blalok scowled. “We’ve never had flukes here before,” he said. “Why should they appear now?”
“They’ve been introduced,” Kennon said. “The thing that bothers me is how Dr. Williamson missed them.”
“The old man was senile,” Blalok said. “He was nearly blind the last six months of his life. I wouldn’t doubt that he let his assistants do most of his work, and they could have missed them.”
“Possibly, but the lesions are easy to see. At any rate, the culprit is known now.”
“Culprit?”
“Hepatodirus hominis—the human liver fluke. He’s a tricky little fellow—travels almost as far as men do.”
“I’m glad it’s your problem, not mine. All I can remember about flukes is that they’re hard to eradicate.”
“Particularly H. hominis.”