September’s BugBitten puzzler
Join us for a coffee/ tea break and enjoy our parasite themed puzzles
Join us for a coffee/ tea break and enjoy our parasite themed puzzles
In Southeast Asia, changes in land-use can increase human and non-human primate interactions, increasing the potential for spillover of zoonotic malaria from these… Read more »
Even if you find ticks repulsive, your skin’s electrical charge may find them positively attractive. Previously assumed to require direct contact to spread,… Read more »
Krisztian Magori reports on two very different conferences he attended over the summer, and what he learned at them, both about… Read more »
In June 2023, concerning news of locally acquired malaria was reported in the US – the first such cases in twenty years. At the… Read more »
What do deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems tell us about parasite richness, diversity and the advantage of certain life history… Read more »
It is not often that malaria research makes it onto the BBC morning news, but it did so very recently, when the discovery of a… Read more »
A new review in the journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty takes a look at papers examining the effect climate change will have on… Read more »
Of the eight morphologically identical but genetically distinct G. duodenalis assemblages A-H, almost all human infections are… Read more »
The identification and discovery of the mode of action of a class of drugs, the cyanotriazoles, that poison trypanosomatids has… Read more »