Etiket: parasites
“An amoeba that eats your brain, unfortunately that really exists”: which parasites can you contract from us according to a parasitologist?
Parasites come in countless types. Most of them can be found in tropical areas where the diversity is much greater than here. The chance that you will contract a serious…
After world first of large living worm in brain of Australian woman: these parasites also crawled into the human body
Even the neurosurgeon was shocked when she saw a long live worm dangling from her tweezers. Dr. Hari Priya Bandi had just extracted it from the brain of her Australian…
Watch out for tick bites, the parasites are already active this winter
The chance of a tick bite in the Netherlands is greatest in Drenthe. This has emerged from research by RIVM and Wageningen University & Research. In the past ten years,…
A9 turtle in bad shape: “Very skinny and under the parasites”
The turtle that was found earlier this week on the hard shoulder of the A9 near Amstelveen is in bad shape. The animal is said to have been roaming around…