Medpage Today on MSN23h
What to Know About 'Raccoon Roundworm'
While two people in Los Angeles County recently were infected with "raccoon roundworm," the infection is rare and doesn't ...
EurekAlert!28d
Intestinal parasite could hold key to scar-free wound healing, study suggests
Gause, Director of the Center for Immunity and Inflammation at Rutgers, investigated a protein called TGM that is produced by Heligmosomoides polygyrus, a parasitic roundworm that lives in the ...
LAist2d
Rare infection in LA
What happened? The raccoon roundworm cases, also known as Baylisascaris procyonis, were found in the South Bay area. It can ...
BGR1mon
This parasite makes you more attractive so you’ll have sex and spread it, strange study says
T.gondii itself has been known to manipulate its hosts. Researchers previously discovered that the parasite could make infected rats attracted to the smell of urine from predator cats. This led ...
Forbes1mon
Meet The Disturbing Parasite That Eats—And Becomes—Tongues
It's not science fiction. It might sound like something out of a horror movie plot (because it sort of is), but the tongue-replacing parasite is very real. The movie imagines mutated parasites ...