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Electrical field of a fruit fly

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Jumping parasitic worms use static electricity to hit their targets

Millimetre-long worms use powerful muscles to jump onto their bee or fly hosts to feed. But their expert leaping may be helped by an electric attraction that pulls them to their targets mid-air

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A person spraying some plants

Health

Massive tick-killing effort fails to reduce Lyme disease cases

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Hydnora bolinii

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Odd parasitic plant with fleshy flowers identified as new species

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The broad fish tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium sp., that infected this Alaskan brown bear, escapes out of the host's anus. 2007. Photograph by Scott Davis. Used with permission.

Life

Parasites review: A fascinating tour of supremely successful invaders

Culture

A species of the Trypanosoma brucei parasite, which can cause sleeping sickness, in blood

Health

Drug clears sleeping sickness parasite from the body in clinical trial

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Microplastic fiber under a microscope with biofilm (fuzzy blue) and T. gondii (blue dot) and giardia (green dot) pathogens

Environment

Microplastics may be dragging faecal parasites from land into the seas

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Parasites may make dogs smell good to disease-spreading sandflies

Health

Parasites may make dogs smell good to disease-spreading sandflies

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mosquito

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Malaria parasite hides in human blood by changing how its genes work

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Cats cost Australia A$6 billion a year by spreading diseases

Health

Cats cost Australia A$6 billion a year by spreading diseases

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Hollow tubes attacjed to Neobolous fossil

Life

Oldest known parasite is a worm-like animal from 512 million years ago

Hundreds of fossil animals that lived more than 500 million years ago had worm-like objects attached to them – the oldest hard evidence of parasitism

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The secret lives of parasites – from killers to healthcare heroes

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Environment

Fish used for sushi now carry 283 times more parasites than in 1980s

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Life

Animal that doesn't need oxygen to survive discovered

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Life

Parasites are going extinct in droves – and we should be very worried

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