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Parasite Named After Barack Obama – Baracktrema Obamai

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PARASITE NAMED AFTER BARACK OBAMA – BARACKTREMA OBAMAI

Popular Science reported on Thursday that a new parasite, a long flatworm found in the lungs of turtles, has been named after Barack Obama, Baracktrema Obamai.

That sounds very fitting.

As I was reading the article in Popular Science, I thought, “Why not rename the Black Plague after Obama too, the Black Obamie?” 

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