More information: Niamh McCartan et al, Impact of heatwave amplitude, duration, and timing on parasite fitness at different baseline temperatures, PLOS Climate (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pclm ...

Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi signal.

Howler monkeys in Costa Rica are facing a growing threat from bot fly larvae infestations, and new research points to tourism and land use changes as key drivers. A study by the Awá Science and ...

You can also protect yourself from this parasite by washing fruits and vegetables, cooking meat to proper temperatures before consuming and avoiding raw shellfish, raw water and raw milk.

In other words, by overwhelming the parasite's proteostasis system, researchers were able to compromise its survival, but Plasmodium could eventually recover.

One type of parasite, Entamoeba histolytica, has developed a very intriguing way to do this. It rips pieces off human cells and steals the proteins to wear them as a disguise.

However, parasite cleanses typically promise to purge the body of intestinal parasites such as tapeworms. "If someone does have a parasite, there is actual medicine to address those parasites.

Back in 2011, during her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia, Ralston observed the parasite under a microscope and found that it was actually taking bites out of human cells.

Science Biology This parasite rips apart human cells and wears them as disguises E. histolytica kills at least 50,000 people every year. Microbiologists have a battle plan. By Andrew Paul ...

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The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea. But sometimes ...

More than 70 people have been infected with cryptosporidium, a microscopic parasite that causes diarrhea, according to Public Health Wales Those who have been infected visited an animal farm in ...