Investigative Journo Survives Africa, Parasite, Death of Magazine Journalism

When Richard Behar’s not pissing off the Scientologists or the Russian government he’s traveling to remote areas of the world and contracting parasites… all in the name of journalism.

For his latest article, which takes up a remarkable 24 pages in Fast Company (who says long-form journalism is dead?), Behar traveled to Africa, in the process contracting Entamoeba histolytica, which is responsible for the second-highest number of parasitic deaths on the continent (malaria is No. 1).

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