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Could a silent parasite live in your body for decades without you knowing? The truth about Chagas disease

This little-known infection can stay hidden for years—then suddenly trigger serious, life-threatening complications.

This Deadly Parasite Stays Invisible by Shredding Its Own Genes

A stealthy parasite behind deadly sleeping sickness has been caught using an astonishing trick to evade the human immune system. Credit: Shutterstock A deadly parasite stays hidden by shredding its ...

Parasites get trapped inside host cells when MIC11 is removed, exposing a crucial escape mechanism

Parasites are a major global health problem, underlying many human diseases worldwide. For example, Plasmodium falciparum, ...

Potentially fatal parasite has been infecting people and dogs; symptoms may not show for 5+ years

While coyotes can endure the infection without adverse effects, humans, rodents, and some domestic dogs aren't so lucky.
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Strange parasite kills human cells and wears their remains as disguise

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that invades the human gut, often causing mild symptoms like diarrhea. But in ...

Woman sneezes nearly 1-inch-long ‘worms’ — how she got the ‘biologically implausible’ infection

The 58-year-old wormectomy patient — whose official diagnosis was “O. ovis nasal myiasis with pupation” — apparently had a ...
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Shedding light on how parasites exit host cells

Researchers from The University of Osaka have shown that the MIC11 gene of Toxoplasma gondii is essential for the parasite to ...