Light micrograph of adult intestinal blood flukes, Schistosoma mansoni. The adults (male thick & bluish, female white & threadlike) normally live in pairs in blood vessels of the small intestine, causing dysentery & diarrhoea. Their spiked eggs cause anaemia, inflammation & tissue scarring. The brown pigmentation is a blood meal.

After picking up a leaky urine that was submitted for schistosomiasis testing, I have officially reached that point in my life where things that are wet and are not supposed to be wet will gross me out because they remind me of my daily pile of leaky containers.

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