I emailed (like 5 days ago) 3 of my lecturers in charge of my parasitology lectures about the essay that was due TODAY...and they only replied TODAY. Anyway it is all so dumb because all their replies are friggin DIFFERENT...so in any case, even if i received their mails earlier it doesn't make much of a difference. Alrite...the essay had some guidelines and one of them was "sites of infection"....and i was wondering if that meant where the bloody parasite infects the human....or in this case, because the bloody parasite jumps from a snail to a fish and then to a human, does "sites of infection" also mean how the parasite enters the snail/fish?

SO, human ONLY or human + snail + fish?

This is what my 3 lecturers replied:

1) Alan Lymbury: Shannon, the essay should be a comprehensive account of the life cycle of the parasite - so all hosts and sites of infection should be included. (ok he said ALL!)

2) Andrew Thompson: Shannon, this mainly refers to sites in human host. (ok he said HUMAN!)

3) Russell Hobbs: Hi Shannon, I'd include infection sites in the fish and definitive host, but I wouldn't worry too much about the snail, unless you want to describe that in the life cycle section. (means what? fish and human must say and snail is optional?)

Not very helpful yah? Anyway being the kiasu Singaporean....i just dumped all the info in lah..so much for my first day in school after the unproductive break hehe....