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DESTINATION: HUMAN Time Platform To

10:05 5 MOUTH JUNCTION
Hustling and bustling their way through the station, (change for onward
connections to
these pesky parasites are on their way to a human Colon and Small
body near you. Once they reach their destination, Intestine)
parasites take what they want from the body, feeding 10:22 1 EYES (via Blood)
and breeding on or in it. They are the worst kinds of
10:31 6 BRAIN CAPITAL
tourists, causing irritation or illness to the local host.
(via Blood)
Eavesdrop on their chat to see where they are headed.
10:52 4 SKIN GATEWAY

10:55 3 LIVER (sushi cart
available onboard)

African eye worm 11:02 9 LEGS ROAD
Nice to chat, but that’s my train, and 11:30 8 SCALP CITY
I need to hitch a ride with a mango fly (via Hair)
onboard. Hopefully, the trip will make
the fly hungry so that when it feeds, it will
inject my larvae into its human host. Once
in, they’ll mature into worms and then
catch the blood highway to the eyes,
Pinworm where they wiggle around
and can be a real pain!
Hi! I’m just back from
the colon. Life there was perfect
for a roundworm like me because
it’s dark, slimy, and warm. When I was
full of eggs, I just wormed my way out
through the anus. That made it itchy,
so my eggs got scratched up by
the unlucky human and delivered
to the mouth. They’re now on Ascaris
their way to the colon. You sound like a meanie
to me, Trypanosoma. I don’t
usually cause too much harm,
unless there’s a big group of us and
we block the small intestine. Today, I’m
just dropping off the kids. Still tiny eggs,
they’re also on their way to the mouth
where they’ll catch a connection
through the digestive system to
the small intestine.

EYES

Trypanosoma brucei

I’m just a microscopic protozoan
(single-celled organism) waiting for
the Tsetse Fly Express to take me directly
to the bloodstream. Then I’ll move on to
the brain and give it the deadly
sleeping sickness. Yawn.

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