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belly fat

Health

Your body fat may be protecting you against infections

Fat isn’t all bad – it stores powerful immune cells, and seems to boost their ability to defend the body from dangerous infections

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Genital parasite crabs are struggling to find sex partners

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Genital parasite crabs are struggling to find sex partners

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Egg of the Paragonismus westermani fluke

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Mummy autopsy reveals earliest known case of liver parasite

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Drinking the parasites

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I tried ingesting rat tapeworm parasites and my poo turned green

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Pig whipworms on monitor

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Parasitic worm eggs may soon be legally sold as food in Germany

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House finch nest with eggs

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Birds use cigarette butts for chemical warfare against ticks

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An engorged tick

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Ticks use sticky pads on their feet to cling on to our skin

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cormorant catching a rainbow trout

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Parasite living inside fish eyeball controls its behaviour

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