Parasitic Infections Stories
- Super head lice resistant to the most popular OTC treatments are now everywhere in the United States, a recent study finds.
- A teenage Indian girl found an unwelcome visitor hiding in her left eye — the cyst of a pork tapeworm that abruptly popped out during an eye exam.
- A new animal study suggests that parasitic worm infestations may be able to restore balance to the erratic gut microbiomes of people with Crohn's Disease.
- A new study suggests that bed bugs may partly ward off insecticides by literally evolving thicker skins.
- One Chinese man learned the hard way how harmful it can be to eat raw beef.
- Archaeological evidence reveals Roman bathhouses were dirtier than we could imagine.
- Pharma CEO Martin Shkreli revealed plans to drastically raise the price of another life-saving drug.
- Certain intestinal worm infections have been noted to boost the fertility rates of women living in an isolated Bolivian community.
- A California man is lucky to be alive after doctors found a tapeworm cyst lodged in his brain.
- The thought of intestinal worms sneaking around our bodies is pretty unpleasant, but some types of worms are beneficial and could help treat inflammatory diseases.
- Intestinal worms can compel their host's microbiome to do its bidding, new research finds.
- Bernie Sanders refused a campaign donation from Martin Shkreli, who still has not lowered the price of Darapim. However, a new Toxoplasmosis drug may render Shkreli irrelevant.