Parasitic museum in Meguro

Page No.68

(It is the Tokyo guide to introduce by the image and the column).

It is person "ZOSIRU" "the Meguro worm building" to know.

"The worm" is the insect which attaches to the surface and the interior of the body of the other animal and lives. When having killed the landlord who receives a food, it, too, is the insect with good condition to survive capped with nutrition in the degree which doesn't kill a landlord because it has died. The person who attaches near the person who has power and ability and survives indeed says "that person is a person like the worm !".
There are "a tapeworm" to enter from "the threadworm" and the fresh slice of raw fish of the mackerel which spits in the neighborhood of the anus as the near worm and so on to the mouth and for the intestines to grow and so on. "The Helicobacter pylori" which is made the cause of the gastritis and the ulcer and so on recently, too, is a worm. These specimens (there is not Helicobacter pylori) are regarded as going to this pavilion.

The Meguro worm building is the research institute which was established by the private property investing of MD Kameya end in 1953 and at present, it is doing research activities as the foundation. In the fact of the museum of the worm that there is only only one in the world, it was watched by the inside and outside of the country and it is in 1993 that the present building was complete. It is only in the 1st floor and the 2nd floor that it becomes a pavilion and the other floor becomes the research institute, the material stacks and the boardroom of the worm relation and so on. The living worm isn't displayed and becomes the specimen which is completely soaked in formalin but cannot but think that about 300 specimens are ""OTU"". The entry is free of charge.

It is the bad worm of the feelings but for the human being, it is a very important research field from the viewpoints such as the sick conquest of the contagious disease and so on and those services and the history can be touched at this museum.

The specimen of the worm stands in line.

In the museum shop, it is brochure "YA" in the inside of the building.
The tapeworm is selling the T-shirt which was made solid and so on.

The cover of the guidebook which is sold at 300 yen
The anisakis imago which is parasitic on the stomach of the mink whale of being made
The anisakis larva that the bottom is parasitic on the liver surface of the Alaska pollack

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