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Roaches Kick Wasps in the Head to Avoid Becoming Zombies
Cockroaches use defensive moves against "zombifying" parasitic wasps. By Mindy Weisberger.
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Dr. Donald Hopkins helped wipe smallpox from the planet. He won't rest until he's done the same for Guinea worm disease.
At an open-air hospital in northern Ghana, Donald Hopkins watched a small girl endure a medical ordeal unseen in the United States. It was 2007, and four-year-old Rafia Fusseini was getting treated for Guinea worm, a parasite that infected her after she drank contaminated water and then grew inside her body. Now it was burrowing out through her skin. Rafia sat on a chair, dressed in a blue-and-red print blouse...
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We need worms
You might think they are disgusting. But our war against intestinal worms has damaged our immune systems and mental health. By William Parker.
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What you need to know about Asian longhorned ticks - A new tick in the United States | Ticks | CDC
Information on ticks and tickborne disease. Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Wasps: If you can't love them, at least admire them
They get a bad press compared with bees and beetles, but wasps are truly remarkable creatures. Want to know the best way to kill a cockroach? Well, first inject some powerful neurotoxins directly into its brain. This will make the bug compliant; it won't try to fly away and will bend to your will. Second, slice off one of its antennae and drink the goo that comes out. For snack purposes, you understand.
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Dinosaurs had feathers ruffled by parasites, study finds
Dinosaurs may have been fearsome and intimidating creatures that dominated the prehistoric earth – but it did not stop them having their feathers ruffled by parasites, researchers have found.
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An attack on stomach bacteria cuts the risk of one of the deadliest cancers
Ridding the gut of the ulcer-causing bacterium Helicobacter pylori could prevent stomach cancer in people with a family history of the disease. H. pylori infects more than half of all people, and has been linked to peptic ulcers and gastric cancer, which kills more people worldwide than all but two other cancers.
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Study finds ticks choose humans over dogs when temperature rises
Confining a young researcher in one box and a dog in another and unleashing blood-sucking ticks to scamper between the boxes sounds like a stunt from I’m A Celebrity.
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Crows removing ticks from kangaroos (part 2 of 5)
Hard to stop watching these.
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One in three people are infected with Toxoplasma parasite – and the clue could be in our eyes
We looked at eye photos and found one in every 150 Australians might have scarring from a common parasitic disease.
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The Dark Truth About Cats — Countere Magazine
Immortalized on both the murals of Ancient Egypt and within the black borders of modern memes, cats have been a cultural force to be reckoned with since the beginning of time. The phenomenon of cats—our love, infatuation, and borderline addiction to them—is as obvious now as it must’ve been in Egypt, when several gods bore cats’ heads.
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