A microscopic parasite that can live for decades in the human brain infects an estimated one-third of the world's population ...

The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health ...

Rajshekhar Gaji was staring at something that should not exist. Under his microscope, parasites that should have been thriving were instead dying—completely unable to survive without a protein his lab ...

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You might think of parasites — and the diseases they cause — as a problem that will never affect you, and you wouldn’t be alone in that thought. But intestinal parasites affect humans and are not just ...