Parasitic sleeping sickness creates ‘invisibility cloak’ to hide in humans for years

The notorious disease known as sleeping sickness can lurk inside a host for months or even years before serious symptoms ...

Woman sneezes nearly 1-inch-long ‘worms’ — how she got the ‘biologically implausible’ infection

The 58-year-old wormectomy patient — whose official diagnosis was “O. ovis nasal myiasis with pupation” — apparently had a ...
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Groundbreaking Israeli study finds malarial parasites hack RNA to deceive immune system

Paving way for new therapies, researchers decode how parasites that spread one of the world's deadliest diseases use trickery ...

This Deadly Parasite Stays Invisible by Shredding Its Own Genes

A stealthy parasite behind deadly sleeping sickness has been caught using an astonishing trick to evade the human immune system. Credit: Shutterstock A deadly parasite stays hidden by shredding its ...

Are parasitic worms what’s missing in our immune systems?

Asha Torczon explores how the eradication of parasites may have made us more vulnerable to immune disease The global disease ...

Greek Woman Sneezes Out Large Worms From Nose In Rare 'Biologically Implausible' Case

A woman in Greece experienced an extremely rare and unsettling medical condition after unknowingly becoming a host to ...