[matheusmoreira]

Parasites are neglected tropical diseases. That's an euphemism for "third world shithole problems". These things aren't much studied because there is no actual need to study them. They are solved by civilization.

Developed nations solved parasites naturally as they developed. Infrastructure, basic sanitation, standards for food production... All of these things interrupt the natural fecal-oral lifecycle of parasites, solving the problem.

Naturally, developing nations are terrible at all of those things. To put it mildly. And thus parasites are endemic. They are literally every day things. It's actually kind of surreal.

It doesn't matter how much funding people put into parasitology, it doesn't change the fact the true solution is to develop the nation into a proper civilization.