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Asexual Giardia lineage spreads across hosts at the cost of survival

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...
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Scientists found a lifeform they can’t classify, and it’s baffling

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...
NBC New York

First human case of flesh-eating screwworm parasite detected in the U.S.

The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite new world screwworm has been detected in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services said early Monday. The case, related to a ...
Food Safety News

Czech scientists report on first domestic case of parasite found in fish

Scientists in the Czech Republic have described the first domestic case of infection with a parasite. Diphyllobothriasis (dibothriocephalosis) is caused by the human broad tapeworm Dibothriocephalus ...
Newsweek

First Human Case of Flesh-Eating Parasite in US in Decades: What to Know

A Maryland resident has been diagnosed with a rare parasitic infection known as New World screwworm (NWS), marking the first human case in the United States in years. The Centers for Disease Control ...
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First US human case of flesh-eating parasite confirmed in Maryland

WASHINGTON (WDCW) – The country’s first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite already wreaking havoc on cattle and driving up beef prices, has been reported in Maryland, ...