Tracking vampire worms with machine learning − using AI to diagnose schistosomiasis before the parasites causing it hatch in your blood
Blood samples of patients infected with a ... dogs and mice. Freshwater worm eggs enter human hosts through the skin and ...
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Meet The Disturbing Parasite That Eats—And Becomes—Tongues
The movie imagines mutated parasites taking over the bodies of humans to wreak havoc on an idyllic ... dactyli (or “claws”) to cut off the blood supply to the tongue, causing it to wither ...
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Gut worms may help treat inflammatory bowel disease
Scientists have discovered that tiny particles released by a type of intestinal worm might help reduce inflammation in people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This condition affects millions of ...
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Parasitic worms that infect humans are on the increase in ocean fish
Another parasitic worm, Clavinema mariae, which doesn't cause illness in humans, increased its numbers eight times in local English sole since the 1930s. Wood says that normal public-health ...