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March 24, 2017 05:50 am PDT
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Public entomologists struggle with an epidemic of delusional parasitosis
Dr Gale Ridge is a public entomologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, where an average of 23 people a day call, write or visit; an increasing proportion of them aren't inquiring about actual insects, they're suffering from delusional parasitosis, and they're desperate and even suicidal. (more…)
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