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Sea cucumber - new 'weapon' against malaria
Nudibranchs (photos) produce a protein called lectin that weakens the development of malaria parasites. This can be seen as a promising new weapon in preventing the spre…
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Prepare vaccines to prevent malaria by ... mosquitoes!
Using the mosquito's own malaria parasite to produce vaccines is a project under development by an international research group in the United States.
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Be wary of lung fluke
The fluke is a disease in which humans and many other animals such as dogs, cats, pigs, tigers, leopards, wolves, foxes, weasels, rats ... can become infected. People ca…
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Watch for worms caused by worms
Previously, we still thought that meningitis was caused by a virus, but actually meningitis also had another reason that was caused by worms. Worm type & agrav
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Fish can fight malaria mosquitoes
Kenyan researchers were surprised to use a small fish as a weapon to combat the rapid spread of malaria. That is the tilapia Nile fish
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Successfully tested Amip parasitic vaccine
Canadian scientists have tested on mice the first vaccine against Amoeba, the intestinal parasite that causes disease in 10% of the world's population and kills 100,000…
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Successfully modulated vaccine against dysentery
University of Calgary Canadian researchers have successfully developed a vaccine to prevent dysentery amib, which has claimed every year of life of 100,000 people worldw…
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The whole parasite parasites in the human eye for more than 1 year
Chinese doctors were surprised to find an entire parasite living in the eyes of a pediatric patient for more than a year. The left eye of a 6-year-old boy in Wuzhou, Gua…
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KP-15: New synthetic substance to kill malaria parasites
Canadian scientists have announced that they have synthesized a substance that kills malaria parasites, including drug resistant strains. This finding is of great signif…
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Parasitic meningitis spreads through food
Recently, the Unified Hospital has treated a case of meningitis caused by Gnathostoma spinigerum. This is a parasitic infection through food. Female patient Ta Kim N., 6…
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Researchers found drugs that prevent malaria parasites
Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered how malaria parasites 'persuade' red blood cells to cover them - and how to prevent parasites and ugravers.
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Liver fluke and helminths appear in the south
Scientists have discovered signs that fish reared in the southern region may be infected with liver fluke, instead of being found only in the north as long as they think…
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Genetic map: a new tool for malaria research
An international team of scientists has announced the completion of a large genome map that represents the genetic variation of human malaria parasites of the Plasmodium…
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Watch out for intestinal fluke
In the types of helminths that cause diseases for humans, there are intestinal fluke. This parasite parasites both in humans and some animals, especially very common in…
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Thousands of worms in the stomach of a 16-month-old girl
The doctors in Paraguay were really shocked after discovering a large number of species of parasites inside the body of the South American girl. This is a case in a vill…