Scientists discovered that river otter droppings contain large numbers of parasites that infect the animals’ prey, indicating that otters may play a significant role in shaping local food webs.

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Doctors warn that the parasite cleanse trend misleads patients, causing health risks and delaying proper diagnosis of ...

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

In 2008, Kurt started to experience things that hadn't bothered him before: dry skin, fatigue, irregular bowel movements and a white coating that formed over his tongue. For years, he saw both ...

Parasites are well known for sucking energy from their hosts, but can they drain energy from hosts even before infection? A new study by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of ...

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The parasites that cause malaria may march to the beat of their own drum. A malarial infection is a series of cyclical symptoms. Depending on the Plasmodium species involved, fever and chills return ...

Researchers at Imperial College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital have found that some traditional homemade soup broths have antimalarial properties and can interrupt the life cycle of the ...