Steaming garbage an archaic law
Migrating larvae locate the jaw
Eosinophilia results
Causing muscular insults
Because you ate Porky raw
A scolex holds them in place
Meshed in the digestive space
Eggs secretly ingested
Brain fully infested
Paralysis, dementia, malaise
Texas cattle are dying or sick
Boophilus, Rhicephalus, your pick
Bloodsuckers their role
Hemozoin their goal
And all in the name of a tick
The blood is a host to this guest
Erythrocytes serve it the best
Through fever and chills
This parasite kills
Romanovsky's a positive test
Chickens are sick with Eimeria
Coccideans linked to malaria
Through divisions schizogeny
They increase their progeny
Polluting with much dysenteria
Babbling brook a visual delight
Compounding the backpackers plight
With beavers upstream
Diarrhea's no dream
With Flagyl nowhere in sight
No-see-ums, a biting pest
Deserts they sometimes infest
Progressive skin damage
And visceral rampage
Antimoniacals, nutrition, and rest
Unhygenic waitress serves lunch
Contaminates the sandwich you munch
Intestinal lesion
Serves as the reason
For bloody, mucous-filled stools by the bunch
Red caltrops, bamboo shoots, and lotus
Puts a rice paddy worker on notice
Water chestnuts don't crack
With your teeth for a snack
Unless an intestinal fluke is your motive