Double parasites Monday!
This is the second life cycle I drew. It was more fun than the ascarid life cycle because I had a chance to give the victim a little personality (she's a cribber).
On to the FIERY SERPENT:
I don't think this life cycle does Dracunculus justice--it's way more exciting than I made it look. Firstly, it infects humans, too, and it's in the Bible! It's close to being eradicated, which I think is a big deal because that snakey thing on the stick in the medicine symbol is not a snake--it's Dracunculus. To treat this, you don't use dewormers. You have to pull this terrible creature out when it emerges from the patient's foot by wrapping it around a small stick, but you can't wrap more than a couple inches per day or it'll break and the rest of the thing will stay stuck in your patient. Bad nooz.
