Parasites Need Love Too

Tuberculosis! Not an eradicated disease. In fact, it's making a large comeback, due to the combined factors of the HIV epidemic and cons...

River blindness is a disease described by it's most devastating side effect, though not everyone who encounters the parasite will become...

Filaria (which causes Human Filariasis) are a group of parasites that are found in pretty different areas of the world, all of which cause d...

HIV was discovered in 1981, though retrospective studies have discovered cases in Africa as early at the 1930s. In 1981, 26 cases of Kaposi...

Okay, not a parasite. But it is probably the most well known microbial infection of our time. Human Immunodeficiency Virus infects an estima...

Trichuris trichuria is the last of the intestinal nematodes for now! It's also known as whipworm. It's also the first one in a few p...

Two versions of these lovely worms. The first is Angiostrongylus cantonensis, adults of which live in, you guessed it, the lungs! Typically ...