A new study finds Tyrannosaurus Rex may have become extinct due to the work of a small one-celled parasitic organism, which caused lacerations in the dinosaur's jaw bone. The disease trichomoniasis gallinae causes lesions in the beaks of modern birds of prey, and Australian...
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It seems that the culprit may have been a specific pathogen: Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia). Researchers in Spain apparently identified the pathogen in professional apiaries and treated it with antibiotics in...
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A breakthrough in the study of the Leishmania parasite has given researchers new hope in combatting this disease causing organism. The disease that this parasite causes, Leishmaniasis, can cause painful and disfiguring skin sores or affect internal organs and eventually...
This research if proven right can save the million lives every year.These parasite kills millions of people across the world.The introduction of bacteria that reduces the life span of parasite can eliminate the...
Haggis could become the next victim of global warming. The rise in a common parasite lung worm, which is gaining in numbers due to global warming, is putting the somewhat popular meat pudding at risk.Haggis is...
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Battle against the Malaria have been finally won. Scientists in Australia have discovered a treatment to combat deadly Malaria. This discovery will help millions of people in developing and poor...
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Wednesday June 25, 2008Residents in 108,000 homes in Northamptonshire are told to boil tap water after the cryptosporidium bug is found to have contaminated their water supplies. About 85 communities are...
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As consumers, we all want pork from pigs that are raised without antibiotics or any other form of chemicals. However, a recent study shows that pigs raised in such conditions are more prone to carry bacteria and...
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Cryptosporidium parvum is a tiny yet insidious waterborne parasite
that wreaks havoc worldwide. This parasite is a major cause of diarrhea
and malnutrition in small children in developing countries, and causes
severe disease in AIDS and other immune compromised patients in...
"Findings from what is believed to be the largest comparison of blood samples collected from healthy individuals and people with schizophrenia suggest that infection with the common Toxoplasma gondii parasite,...
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Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University, Diana Cox-Foster and
her colleagues points the finger at Israeli acute paralysis virus. The
lurgy in question was, the researchers suggest, was imported...
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"MADRID (Reuters) - A parasite common in Asian bees has spread to Europe and the Americas and is behind the mass disappearance of honeybees in many countries, says a Spanish scientist who has been studying the...
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"Here is an item that is really troubling, in that, we here on Earth do not know what may get to our human population first - famine (lack of food) or disease (animal flu crossover).
The bee populations...
The BBC is reporting that Irish city Galway has been struck by a cryptosporidium outbreak that is causing a crisis for the city. Cryptosporidium is a protozoan that can cause severe vomiting, diarrhea, and stomach cramps in humans (cryptosporodiosis). What's worse,...
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""In short, it can make men behave like alley cats and women behave like sex kittens''."
Parasite 'turns women into sex kittens'
By Jane Bunce
A COMMON parasite can increase a women's attractiveness to the...
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