Parasites News

Speaking in the Rajya Sabha during the Motion of Thanks on President`s address, PM Modi said, "A new type of people have propped up in the country they are "Andolan jivi", adding "Protest is there life-source and they can be spotted in each protest site be it on anything.

Surgeons treating a North Korean soldier who was severely wounded by gunfire while escaping to South Korea have removed dozens of parasites from his body, including presumed roundworms as long as 27 centimetres (11 inches), hospital officials said.

The defector crossed the demilitarised zone earlier this week, but was shot several times by North Korean border guards as he ran across the Joint Security Area in Panmunjom to the South Korean side.  

Frequent grooming among mandrills, a primate of the Old World monkey family, is undoubtedly a means of eliminating ectoparasites.

Food poisoning is an illness caused by consuming contaminated food with bacteria, viruses, parasites or toxins.

 The new drug, described as a 'new hope', can target an enzyme common to the parasites causing all three infections – sleping sickness, chagas disease and leishmaniasis.

The fight against malaria can be hard, but a team of researchers has found that the more effective way to beat the disease is to use less effective drugs some of the time.