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Montreal Gazette - Good thing this guy isn't squeamish
Published: 26 July 2010
Dr. Momar Ndao is fighting the good fight against diseases you've never heard of and probably won't catch - you hope, because they're nasty.
Ndao is laboratory director of the National Reference Centre for Parasitology. He and his research team work at the º«¹úÂãÎè Health Centre's Research Institute on Pine Ave.
The building adjoins the Montreal General Hospital's ER, where, in an average year, they'll treat more people for arrow wounds than for Chagas, a parasitic disease that afflicts 10 million people, all of whom live well south of Pine. Transmitted through an insect bite, Chagas kills 50,000 people in South America every year.