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Woman having painful stomachache. (Getty Images / athima tongloom)

Think twice before a parasite cleanse

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Cochliomyia hominivorax, the New World screwworm fly, or screwworm for short, is a species of parasitic fly that is well known for the way in which its larvae (maggots) eat the living tissue. (Getty Images / Ramdan Fatoni)

The US could get screwed on screwworm

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Keith Lee attends ComplexCon 2024 on November 16, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Bryan Steffy/Getty Images for Complex)

"Worm": Keith Lee shuts down sushi joint

Joy Saha
Candiru (Vandellia cirrhosa), also known as cañero, toothpick fish, or vampire fish, is a species of parasitic freshwater catfish in the family Trichomycteridae native to the Amazon Basin. (Jorge Garcia/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Nature’s strangest real life vampires

Matthew Rozsa
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Small girl having a lice nit treatment (Getty Images/Richard Bailey)

Why lice is no longer a crisis at school

Nicole Karlis
Tobacco hornworm caterpillar with wasp pupae on back (Getty Images/Ed Reschke)

Parasites: Life's greatest success story

Troy Farah
Close up macro of small sand fly gnat on green leaf (Getty Images/EzumeImages)

Flesh-eating parasite now endemic in US

Troy Farah
Tick on a leaf (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Ticks spreading brain-swelling illness

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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Macro image of a dead bee on a leaf (Getty Images)

Climate change ups the pressure on bees

Jennie L. Durant - The Conversation
Shorthair cat lying on front in bed looking bored (Getty Images/Kilito Chan)

How a cat parasite conquered the world

Troy Farah
Zombie hand emerging from the ground (Getty Images/Marc Mateos)

Zombies abound in nature

Troy Farah
IDLIB, SYRIA - JULY 02: A Syrian kid suffering from leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease spread by the bite of phlebotomine sandflies, is seen in a refugee camp in Idlib, Syria on July 02, 2020. In the refugee camps in Idlib, danger of leishmaniasis disease arose due to inadequate living conditions and insufficient health services. In the camps where sheltered civilians escaping from the attacks of Assad regime and its supporters, infrastructure problems, especially exposed septic pits and damaged sewers, cause the spread of the disease. (Muhammed Abdullah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Climate change could spread parasite

Agostino Petroni - Undark
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The Baga Solo refugee camp near the shore of Lake Chad Wednesday March 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Grappling with the guinea worm

Jordan Schermerhorn - Undark
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In defense of fish parasites

Matthew Rozsa
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Summer will kill us all

Joanna Rothkopf
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Joanna Rothkopf
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Joanna Rothkopf
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Lindsay Abrams
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