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Oct. 26, 2021 There's been a significant breakthrough in the development of a vaccine to prevent hookworm infection -- a parasite which causes serious disease in tens of millions of people globally. Trials of ...
Sep. 22, 2021 Right now, U.S. veterinarians rely on three types of drugs to kill the hookworms, but the parasites appear to becoming resistant to all of them. Dog hookworms can also infect ...
Oct. 28, 2022 The parasite Toxoplasma is carried by a large portion of the global human population. Now a study shows how this microscopic parasite so successfully spreads in the body, for example to the brain. ...
Feb. 23, 2022 An analysis of data from more than 11,000 older Japanese adults suggests that seniors who own a dog may be at lower risk of disability than those who have never been dog ...
Dec. 14, 2021 Efforts to eradicate a human parasitic disease are being hampered by dogs eating infected fish, new research ...
Apr. 1, 2022 Researchers have discovered that common herbicides and some of their derivatives can kill the parasite Toxoplasma gondii when it infects human cells in a petri dish, without harming the cells ...
Mar. 14, 2024 Scientists have confirmed that a potentially fatal dog parasite is present in a portion of the Colorado River that runs through ...
Mar. 2, 2022 Parasitic tapeworms have a complex life cycle moving from plankton to fish and then fish-eating birds. New research on how parasite resistance in threespine stickleback fish may lead to a better ...
Apr. 5, 2022 Like diseases affecting humans, parasites can wage a deadly evolutionary 'arms race' against their hosts. But can hosts and parasites upgrade their weapons at the same ...
May 10, 2021 A chemical that the New South Wales government has recently partially banned in firefighting has been found in the pups of endangered Australian sea lions and in Australian fur seals. The finding ...