NEWLY DISCOVERED FLATWORM IS NAMED AFTER OBAMA – IOTW Report

NEWLY DISCOVERED FLATWORM IS NAMED AFTER OBAMA

PopularScience- A new species of blood fluke was found infecting the lungs of turtles in Malaysia. This parasitic flatworm has been dubbed Baracktrema obamai, in honor of the President of the United States (who is the fifth cousin twice removed of one of the discovering scientists).

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B. obamai is described in the August issue of the Journal of Parasitology as having a long, thread-like body. So far, it’s shown up in two freshwater turtles, the black marsh turtle (Siebenrockiella crassicollis) and southeast Asian box turtle (Cuora amboinensis).  MORE

16 Comments on NEWLY DISCOVERED FLATWORM IS NAMED AFTER OBAMA

  1. blood suck, infectious, parasite … that about covers it ….

    although we may have a solution to one of Illary’s ‘problems’ … the last sentence in the article states ” making the turtles cough is probably involved. ….

  2. … and remember, in the future, when you meander through the clickbait & see ’27 Interesting Facts About the First Sultan of the United States’ that it is true there is a blood sucking parasite named after the blood sucking parasite

    because, right as rain, Snopes & FactCheck will be out there denying it …

  3. So now I can call him Jeramiah Wright´s God-Damn-America-hating, parasitic, flatworming, jug-eared, dog-eating, inept, lying, two-bit, belly-aching, finger-pointing, Bush-blaming, Treasury-looting, economy-wrecking, healthcare-destroying, process-circumventing, Benghazi bullshitting, Constitution-stomping, scrawny, little Communist Organizing, phoney-baloney plastic-banana republic, Baracktrema Obamai who prefers turtles?
    Watch out Mitch McConnell!

  4. Many flatworms propagate through the dung of its host and they are hermaphroditic (they are both male and female in one organism).

    This is sooo revealing on sooo many levels… pardon me, I have to lie down.

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