Parasite playing cards

Cory Doctorow 9:00 am Fri Jun 26, 2015

The lucky attendees at this year's meeting of the American Societe of Parasitologists got a gorgeous deck of parasite-themed playing cards into their conference bags.

Don't worry: if these ever go into wide production, I'll definitely be posting about it here.

The welcome package at #ASPOmaha includes a parasite-themed card deck. I am SO excited about this. pic.twitter.com/DuQ6GzDliR

— Kelly Weinersmith (@FuSchmu) June 26, 2015

Here are the aces – tapeworms, acanthocephalans #ASPOmaha pic.twitter.com/cJl0MnKI8j

— Susan Perkins (@NYCuratrix) June 25, 2015

(Thanks, April!)

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