Leishmania

The other man was Louis-Herbert Mancroux, a physician-scientist tasked with cranking out research that would put Tunis on the map.

They were looking into a parasite known as Leishmaniasis, which can exhibit a range of symptoms, but the most common is ugly skin sores.

Nicole and Mansu wanted to know how the parasite was transmitted, and they had a feeling that these rodents were part of the answer.

Their quarry that day was a guinea pig-like creature known as the Gundy.

The two scientists examined the animals and found a new parasite, which they called Leishmania gondii.

The gondii comes from the French word gondii.

About a year later, the pair realized that they'd actually found an entirely new kind of parasite that was unrelated to Leishmaniasis.

They decided to rename it Toxoplasma gondii, a combination of the Greek word toxo, meaning bow, and plasma, which means shape.

But she was just so good with the crowd, the people, there were all these dogs passing through the park that they, we were walking like 20 dogs and she just, she was so social.

and i said i'm gonna i'm gonna take her for a doggy day out i took her around town again amazing confidence level i started training her you know she was just learning things so quickly and this is i had so i pulled her out for the week that i was there and tried to just get her adopted i just talked to everybody on the street and i'm like this is an amazing dog um And there was one couple that was really interested in her, but it didn't wind up working out because we found out that she had Leishmania, which is this parasite and come from Africa and the mosquito anyway so they were even though it's a completely treatable thing it they never recover from it but that really counted against her in terms of her adoptability and people were like worried that they had to pay 20 bucks of you know a month for her medication to keep these parasites uh in low levels and um it just broke my heart because she got i had to bring her back to the shelter and um i went back to estonia and i just i campaigned for her constantly i had done a bunch of videos of her and um i couldn't bring her bring her to estonia unfortunately because of our we had two dogs and an apartment situation but um she i just kept advocating for her and she finally got adopted out to a family in germany and it just was like I was in tears, but the, you know, there's just too many dogs.

I mean, there's just way too many dogs that it's very difficult to find homes for, even the best of dogs.

There is a pit bull right now, which is like Amstaff.