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Parasites and piranhas: a journey round Guyana.

1981; BMJ; Volume: 282; Issue: 6263 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.282.6263.554

0959-8138

J. I. Clarke,

Parasite Biology and Host Interactions

Sisters lie next to Brothers, and Experience separates Catherine's Lust from Shumaker's Lust.I am not quoting from a racy novel, but from the coastal map of Guyana.The chequered history of this impoverished country is shown in such unlikely place names.Although Jonestown hit the headlines in 1978, the ex-British colony is known chiefly for its sugar and rum from the Demerara district.Guyana lies just __-----_;-above the equator on ArLANTIC the north-east coast of South America.It has many rivers cutting through rain forest and the Rupununi, the southern savannah.The 0 U 2 jPrX z country is sparsely v"G. . 1 f .kel*populated, and the A'> ~A 750 000 people are con- centrated on the coastal v ViiL ~*o; <plains.Africans and Eastr -9.Jỹ RINAM Indians predominate in the racially diverse r t ).Ij 7society, and the main Meeting the Amerinds I was invited to visit the family of a laboratory worker who lived in the interior.Arapiaco was a tiny Amerind community of homes in clearings along the Pomeroon River, which was the only means of transport and communication: children, in Amerind women preparing cassava.