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A small number of people in Florida and Texas have contracted malaria

Health

What we know so far about the malaria cases in Florida and Texas

Five malaria cases have been reported in Florida and Texas, all of which were acquired through local transmission

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Life

Life-extending parasite makes ants live at least three times longer

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A pair of the parasitic water-borne worms Schistosoma mansoni

Health

We now know how parasitic worms help ward off obesity and diabetes

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Life

City life may help Darwin's finches survive bloodsucking flies

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Life

Parasite from cat faeces killed four sea otters in California

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Electrical field of a fruit fly

Life

Jumping parasitic worms use static electricity to hit their targets

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A person spraying some plants

Health

Massive tick-killing effort fails to reduce Lyme disease cases

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Hydnora bolinii

Life

Odd parasitic plant with fleshy flowers identified as new species

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The broad fish tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium sp., that infected this Alaskan brown bear, escapes out of the host's anus. 2007. Photograph by Scott Davis. Used with permission.

Life

Parasites review: A fascinating tour of supremely successful invaders

Culture

A species of the Trypanosoma brucei parasite, which can cause sleeping sickness, in blood

Health

Drug clears sleeping sickness parasite from the body in clinical trial

In a small trial, an experimental medicine was 100 per cent effective at ridding the parasite that causes sleeping sickness from the bodies of people with an early to intermediate infection

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Environment

Microplastics may be dragging faecal parasites from land into the seas

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Health

Parasites may make dogs smell good to disease-spreading sandflies

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Health

Malaria parasite hides in human blood by changing how its genes work

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Health

Cats cost Australia A$6 billion a year by spreading diseases

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