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Nearly 850 species of parasites are known to infect people; some, like the potentially deadly plasmodium parasite that causes ...

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Here’s a comforting thought: you might not actually be alone in your own body right now. Parasites are far more common than most people realize, and they don’t care about your personal boundaries, ...

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A team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, explains in a paper published in PLoS Pathogens how a microscopic parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, can significantly disrupt brain function ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) I am a microbiologist, and my lab studies Toxoplasma. This new study bolsters emerging ...