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When I say I'm a neurobiologist who studies how parasitic worms use smell to find animals to infect, the response I usually get is, Parasitic worms can smell? Yes, many parasitic worms sense a wide variety of odors. How exactly they use odors to search for hosts is a question I'm working to answer.

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