Editing Toxocariasis (section)

==History==
Werner described a parasitic nematode in dogs in 1782 which he named ''Ascaris canis''. Johnston determined that what Werner had described was actually a member of the genus ''Toxocara'' established by Stiles in 1905. Fülleborn speculated that ''T canis'' larvae might cause granulomatous nodules in humans. In 1947 Perlingiero and Gyorgy described the first case of what was probably toxocariasis.  Their patient was a 2-year-old boy from Florida who had classical symptoms and esoinophilic necrotizing granulomas.<ref name="afip.org" /> In 1950, Campbell-Wilder was the first to describe toxocariasis in humans; she published a paper describing ocular granulomas in patients with endophthalmitis, Coat's disease, or pseudoglioma. Two years later, Beaver et al. published the presence of ''Toxocara'' larvae in granulomas removed from patients with symptoms similar to those in Wilder's patients.<ref name="Holland_2006">{{cite book | veditors = Holland C, Smith HV | title = Toxocara: the enigmatic parasite. | location = Wallingford, UK and Cambridge, MA | publisher = CABI Publishing | year = 2006 | url = http://site.ebrary.com/lib/stanford/docDetail.action?docID=10157926 }}</ref><ref name="Despommier"/> The dangers of toxocariasis were first raised in Britain in the 1970s, leading to a public health scare.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/munitions-of-the-mind/2016/09/16/dog-dirt-disgust-and-1970s-british-health-propaganda/|title=Dog Dirt, Disgust and 1970s British Health Propaganda – Munitions of the Mind|first=Neil|last=Pemberton | name-list-style = vanc |website=blogs.kent.ac.uk}}</ref>