First I think both of you are jumping the gun. No one called BS here but no one has tested it to see if it was true.
I did dowse it earlier and got a yes but couldn't be sure. I just dowsed and saw one very large dead A.lumbricoides.
But what I am attempting to get through here is that killing something while toxic may be far worse than leaving it.
Now as for the other tidbit:
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very same burning reaction again,
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I don't want to dowse, so if you want you can find out which of the hookworm is in my blog. If so you will want to run and treat it to blow it up since leaving it now will have it decay slowly and if in a bad circulation area that may be detrimental...