# Medieval Monks were Riddled with Worms, Study Finds

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**Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medieval-monks-were-riddled-with-worms-study-finds/969961/2 "2022-08-19T20:01:09Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> “One possibility is that the friars manured their vegetable gardens with human faeces, not unusual in the medieval period, and this may have led to repeated infection with the worms,

that’s the same reason the roman empire had the same problem …

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