Many of them are contagious, others are fatal.

Many of them are contagious, others are fatal. This proves once more that the more science advances, the more Islam is proved to be correct in so many respects. The present day science of parasitology lists a protozoan ciliate, the pork tapeworm, and the trichina roundworm as causing important diseases that the pig shares with man. QUESTION: Well, I do not understand these Latin words. Please explain them in simple language. ANSWER: In fact, I had not used their full Latin names.

For example, protozoan ciliate is called by the doctors "Balantidium Coli." It is a "parasite, harbouring in the large intestine" and is "the largest protozoan affecting man ." QUESTION: What has this "Balantidium Coli" to do with pigs and how does it affect human-beings? ANSWER: It is normal inhabitant of the pigs' bowels.

It is excreted by its faeces and finding the external environment unsuitable for itself, develops a shell round it which is called a "cyst." The cyst contains living parasites that communicate with man's diet thus enter his bowels, was found by Dr. Malmston (1857) and Stein (1862). Dr. E. A. Widmer writes in his article Pork, Man and Disease (Good Health, vol.69, no.1): "The protozoan ciliate, known technically as Balantidium Coli, is extremely common in swine.

Recent surveys in various countries reveal an incidence range of 21 to 100 per-cent. This organism is much less common in man. The general incidence of one per-cent reported in Puerto Rico is representative of the incidence in many countries. When found in man serious clinical symptoms may result. Current evidence points strongly to the pig as the chief source of human infection." (Emphasis mine) QUESTION: And what are those "serious clinical symptoms" which are caused by this germ?

ANSWER: It creates uncurable dysentry. Dysentry is a disease very familiar to the public. The symptoms of this disease are horribly acute and may end fatally. Unfortunately there is no specific cure for dysentry caused by Balantidium Coli up-to-date. According to Dr.

Chandler in his book, Animal Parasites and Human Disease, "it is only in pig-raising countries and where there is too close an association between man and this animal that this disease is common." (page 7) (Emphasis mine) QUESTION: What are other germs which are transferred from pig to man? ANSWER: There are many more. For example, there is the "Trichinella Spiralis" (Trichina Worms) . Dr.