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Russian doll disease is a virus inside a parasite inside a fly
It’s a Russian doll of a tropical disease. Leishmaniasis, a disease that infects 12 million people worldwide, is passed to humans by sandflies infected with the Leishmania parasite. Now it seems that in some species of the parasite, a virus hiding inside is silently helping it subvert treatment.
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