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Tiny creatures that spread an awful disease are marching across the US
Cases of Lyme disease have risen substantially over the last two decades, and a new report may partially explain why — the tick species that carries it has spread across even more of the United...
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There’s a new possible suspect behind the most commonly reported insect-borne...
Lyme disease, the most commonly reported insect-carried disease in the United States, is caused by a known bacteria found in ticks. But scientists have now found that another parasite may also be...
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The differences between viruses, bacteria, and parasites
“Stop the spread of superbugs,” “15 superbugs and other scary diseases” and “Superbug bacteria found in tested hotel rooms” are headlines we often read or hear about. But what do we mean when we say...
View ArticleScientists just discovered bedbugs are getting much harder to eliminate —...
Bedbugs are a nightmare for any person who has them. They're impossible to find and generally feed while you're sleeping. To make matters worse, scientists just found out they're actually getting more...
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5 times parasites affected the course of wars
Some of the most consequential actors in past wars weren’t the soldiers storming the ramparts, the generals issuing orders, or even engineers who designed the weapons and armor necessary to win....
View ArticleScientists have discovered why American honey bees are turning into zombies
A California based group has discovered a growing threat to the American honey bee population that turns them into "zombees." The research by Dr John Hafernik and his team have discovered that the...
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Thinking of malaria as a 'tropical' disease is a huge misunderstanding
If you look at a map that shows where there's active malaria transmission, it'd be easy to think that the disease — which despite being treatable kills somewhere between 438,00 and 730,000 people a...
View ArticleMistletoe is actually a tree-killing parasite — here's how it became a...
Pucker up? That adorable little sprig you're smooching under this season is actually a ruthless parasite that sucks trees of their nutrients. Mistletoe has a long history that took it from you...
View ArticleA pet expert explains the bizarre mind-controlling parasite you can contract...
Abigail Tucker, author of "The Lion in the Living Room," explains toxoplasmosis, a parasite found in cat feces. In some instances, it can cause birth defects or enable mental health issues rage related...
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Hawaiian health officials issue warning over an outbreak of brain-invading...
A sharp rise in infections stemming from a parasitic worm that invades the human brain has health officials in the Hawaiian island of Maui worried.Six cases of rat lungworm disease have so far been...
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Sushi lovers have been warned about raw-fish parasites after a man was found...
Doctors have warned that the growing popularity of sushi in Western diets could lead to a rise in parasitic infections.Writing in the British journal BMJ Case Reports, researchers based in Lisbon,...
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A parasitic infection called crypto is on the rise in US swimming pools
Be careful when you go for a swim in the neighborhood pool this summer.The parasitic infection cryptosporidium — known as crypto — is on the rise in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control...
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Tiny mysterious sea creatures attacked and bloodied an Australian teen’s legs...
Australian teen Sam Kanizay's legs were chewed up by mysterious creatures at a beach near Melbourne, Australia.Initial reports called the flesh-eating creatures "sea lice"— which refers to more than...
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A drug-resistant malaria superbug is on the rise — here’s why that’s so...
Malaria parasites carried by mosquitoes in the Greater Mekong region have started to become resistant to the main drugs used to treat the disease.Malaria still kills more than 400,000 a year and the...
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Injured defector's parasites and diet hint at a hard life in North Korea
SEOUL — Parasitic worms found in a North Korean soldier, critically injured during a desperate defection, highlight nutrition and hygiene problems that experts say have plagued the isolated country for...
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A 99-million-year-old fossil shows even dinosaurs got bitten by ticks
A new study of a fossil from Burma reveals a tick grasping a dinosaur feather, providing our first evidence that ticks preyed on dinosaurs.Scientists also found a new species of tick — Deinocroton...
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A man pulled a 5-foot-long tapeworm out of his body and it may have been...
A California man pulled a 5-foot-long tapeworm out of his body, put it in a plastic bag, and went to the emergency room, according to a January 8 episode of the medical podcast "This Won't Hurt a...
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A Canadian couple got infected by hookworm while walking on a beach — here's...
After returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic, a Canadian couple realized they'd acquired a cutaneous larva migrans, or hookworm, infection.The infection was most likely caused by walking...
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14 worms were pulled out of a woman’s eye after she got a rare infection
14 tiny parasitic worms were removed from an Oregon woman's eye.Thelazia gulosa, a type of eye worm seen in cattle in the northern United States and southern Canada, has never been seen before in...
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A woman found 14 worms hiding in her eye after it got red and scratchy —...
An Oregon woman whose eye was red, scratchy, and irritated eventually found that she had been infected by parasitic worms.Doctors were shocked when they realized she had Thelazia gulosa worms, which...
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