Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Irah king, PhD, explains what a helminth is.and how the immune system responds to it.

Excerpt from Immune Booster 26: Immune defense against parasitic worms with Irah King

Irah King from McGill University talks about his passion to understand how our immune system detects and responds to helminthic worm infections, how the worms can reprogram those responses, and how these pathways might be exploited to develop new treatments for inflammatory diseases.

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