It was long believed that the Dracunculus medinensis parasite, which causes guinea worm disease in humans, has a fairly simple life cycle: A person drinks water contaminated with copepods, or water ...
Jimmy Carter made eradicating the Guinea worm a top mission of The Carter Center. Now it could soon become the second disease ...
Scientists have made some intriguing parasite discoveries in an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum. Canned salmon, well past its prime, has preserved decades of Alaskan marine ...