New research from a multi-disciplinary team shows where a moose spends time in the spring has the strongest connection to whether the moose becomes infected with the parasite known as brain worm.
Plants & Animals
Mar 12, 2020
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As hosting gigs go, it's a tough crowd.
Cell & Microbiology
May 22, 2019
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Disease in wild animals can have a greater impact on the health of others than on the infected animals themselves, a study suggests.
Plants & Animals
Jul 7, 2015
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Schistosomiasis is a debilitating disease caused by a parasitic worm that develops in freshwater snails before infecting people. Knocking back snail populations with pesticides is one method to control the spread of the disease, ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 28, 2022
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Scientists have sequenced the genome of the parasitic worm responsible for causing onchocerciasis—an eye and skin infection more commonly known as river blindness. Through their work, researchers have gained insight into ...
Biotechnology
Nov 21, 2016
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How parasites use different life-history strategies to beat our immune systems may also provide insight into the control of diseases, such as elephantiasis and river blindness, which afflict some of the world's poorest communities ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 19, 2010
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Animals living in large groups tend to have more parasites than less social animals do, but according to a new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, they may also be better protected from the negative effects of those ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 19, 2018
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When two University of Washington graduates launched one of the first crowd funding sites for science, they had to beat the bushes for projects. A year later, so many researchers are beating on Microryza's door that the startup ...
Other
Jul 10, 2013
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(Phys.org) -- A long forgotten foe is beginning to reemerge on pastures and meadows around the world, and farmers are finding that they have no way to combat it. Parasitic worms infecting cows, sheep, goats and horses are ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2012
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Almost one in six people worldwide are infected by parasitic worms, while parasitic infections of livestock cause economic losses of billions of Euro per year. Resistance to the few drugs available to treat infections is ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 4, 2013
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