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32 scary parasitic diseases
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoDiphyllobothriasis (Image credit: Oleksandr Lytvynenko via Shutterstock) The tapeworm Diphyllobothrium latum is the largest of its kind that can infect ...
Research identifies mechanism behind drug resistance in malaria parasite
Phys.org· 7 hours agoThis discovery advances the understanding of how malaria parasites respond to drug-induced stress and develop resistance and paves the way for the development of new drugs ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a worm ate part of his brain. Experts say that’s unlikely.
Gannett via AOL· 3 days agoKennedy told the Times he recovered from the memory loss and mental fogginess he experienced in 2010...
Lyme disease was not spread through bioweapons.
Politifact· 10 minutes ago"In the late 1960s, government bioweapons labs started injecting ticks with exotic diseases," Carlson wrote in a May 9 Instagram caption. Contrary to...
Genetic analyses show how symbiotic bacteria in termite gut has changed over course of evolution
Phys.org· 2 hours agoThe results, now published in mBio, show that some strains of bacteria may in fact have already...
Britons warned to boil water on concern over parasite contamination in Devon areas
Reuters via AOL· 1 day agoResidents in part of Devon in southwestern England were warned on Wednesday to boil water before...
Boil water warning after parasite found
BBC via Yahoo News· 1 day agoWhat is cryptosporidium? The parasite, also known as crypto, causes an illness or disease called cryptosporidiosis affecting people and some animals, the...
What's worse for disease spread: animal loss, climate change or urbanization?
NPR· 1 day agoTo get that broader view, Rohr and his colleagues built a dataset from nearly 1,000 studies across...
Tick season is expected to be worse than ever in Michigan
Detroit Free Press· 2 days agoTicks are on the move this spring, and watch out — tick activity is climbing as the climate changes....
Kenya is gripped by deadly malaria. Could a new locally produced drug be gamechanger?
Euronews via Yahoo News· 4 days agoMalaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites transmitted to humans through the bites of...
