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AI can spot parasites in stool samples to help diagnose infections

About 1.5 billion people worldwide carry a risk of conditions including malnutrition because of parasitic infection, and AI could help identify those affected

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fecal sample with parasites

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Bridge author, Lauren Beukes: There are a lot of multiverses out there

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Lauren Beukes

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Fossilised reptile poo contains 200-million-year-old parasites

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A small number of people in Florida and Texas have contracted malaria

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What we know so far about the malaria cases in Florida and Texas

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Life-extending parasite makes ants live at least three times longer

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A pair of the parasitic water-borne worms Schistosoma mansoni

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We now know how parasitic worms help ward off obesity and diabetes

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City life may help Darwin's finches survive bloodsucking flies

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Parasite from cat faeces killed four sea otters in California

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Jumping parasitic worms use static electricity to hit their targets

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Massive tick-killing effort fails to reduce Lyme disease cases

Killing ticks in an area reduces the number carrying the main bacterium that causes Lyme disease, but a large study found it does not lead to fewer reports of people getting sick

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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.

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Parasites review: A fascinating tour of supremely successful invaders

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

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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

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Microplastics may be dragging faecal parasites from land into the seas

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