Parasitic Diseases List

Teenager Dies After Tapeworm Infection Left His Brain Riddled With Cysts    The Epoch Times A teenager died after his brain became riddled with hundreds of larvae from a tapeworm often picked up from eating pork. The case of the unnamed 18-year-old ...

Closing in on a century-old mystery, scientists are figuring out what the body's 'tuft cells' do    Science Magazine While poring over tissue slides in the 1920s, a Soviet microscopist spotted an oddball cell squeezed into the intestinal lining. With its bulbous shape and bristly ...

The invasive fungus threatening Earth’s biodiversity    Pursuit Research involving the University of Melbourne finds an invasive species of fungus is responsible for one of the greatest extinctions of vertebrate biodiversity.

Deinove 2018 Annual Results: a year of significant progress    Associated Press This *content* is a press release from our partner Globe Newswire. The AP newsroom and editorial departments were not involved in its creation.

Dealing with deficiencies    The Scottish Farmer The clinical signs associated with trace element deficiency in sheep are often insidious in onset and usually present as poorly grown lambs during…

Jumping worms: New invasive critter to worry about    Quad City Times Have you heard of jumping worms? As gardeners we think of worms as "good guys." Earthworms improve soil with their aerating tunnels and highly fertile poop ...

Teen Died Of Tapeworm Egg Infestation in the Brain    https://ift.tt/2FpvifJ According to a case study released Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, an 18-year-old teen who had complaints of seizures in the ER of an ...