Hookworms- Anclyostoma duodenale
Hookworms are parasitic worms that infect its host by occupying their small intestine and causing intellectual and physical retardation. Hookworms reproduce when a male leaves the wall of a small intestine to search for a female, who produces hormones to attract a male. The male and female then attach to each other so the male can release his sperm into the females genital pores. The female can then lay anywhere between 10,000 and 30,000 eggs during the remaining time of her adult life. The eggs travel with the stool and hatch a few days after incubation. Once the eggs hatch, the larval hookworms make there way to penetrate the skin and travel with the blood stream, until they reach the respiratory system and follow it to the stomach, where the process begins all over again.