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#parasites — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #parasites, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Organismes vermiformes d'une embranchement nommé #Nematomorpha, ils fréquentent les #eauxDouces cosmopolites (les points d'eau des grottes, les flaques, les étangs, les lacs, les cours d'eau de toutes tailles, mais aussi domestiques comme les piscines, les cuvettes de toilettes, les abreuvoirs pour bovins et les gamelles d'animaux de compagnie 🤪 ).
    Pour en savoir plus, consultez la nouvelle fiche sur les vers gordiens !

    COVES Jacques, COROLLA Jean-Pierre in : #DORIS 04/09/2026 :
    Gordiida (Ordre) Schmarda, 1871, doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/3349

    #Biodiversity #ffessm #Gordioida #Gordiida #biodiversite #vers #parasites

  2. 🐛🤖 Konstantin's latest tizzy is about #AI crawlers hogging #CPU cycles like #digital #parasites, draining resources faster than a toddler in a candy store. 🙄 Apparently, it's a groundbreaking revelation that #scraping #data uses servers... next, he'll tell us water is wet. 💧 Who knew #bots were such CPU junkies? 😂
    people.kernel.org/monsieuricon #Crawler #Issues #Usage #HackerNews #ngated

  3. New publication: Acute #heat tolerance (CTmax) of two invasive parasitic #copepods differs across species, life cycle stages and acclimation temperatures. #climatechange #heatwaves #parasites
    doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70399

  4. Cyclospora Infections and Their Risks for Vulnerable Populations

    📰 Original title: Why Cyclospora Can Be Deadly for Some People

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/cyclospora-inf

    #health #healthcare #parasites #publichealth

  5. 29-Jul-2026
    Oil beetle larvae #smell like #flowers to manipulate #bees
    The European oil beetle's parasitic larvae emit a floral #scent that attracts wild bees. This allows the larvae to sneak into the bees' nests

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #ecology #pollinators #chemicalEcology #insects #parasites #beetles

  6. Engineered #hookworms could one day dispense #drugs from inside your gut
    Researchers have #geneticallymodified the intestinal #parasites to make an antitoxin
    Using #CRISPR #geneediting, scientists engineered hookworms that live in the human gut to make an #antibody against deadly toxin
    Eventually, small numbers of hookworms may secrete drugs or other substances into people’s bloodstreams to treat a wide variety of diseases from allergies to obesity
    sciencenews.org/article/engine
    archive.ph/1HPRL

  7. Two things I try to avoid are jellyfish🪼 parasite 🪱. Naturally, jellyfish have their own parasites (for maximum creepiness). But the thing is, those parasites don't stay in the jellyfish; they are just a step in their life cycle. 🧪🌊

    Link: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2

    #Ocean #Jellyfish #Parasites

  8. #Leishmania: @dfg.de is providing 2.2 million euros for Tom Beneke’s Emmy Noether Junior Research Group @uni-wuerzburg.de. Beneke is investigating how Leishmania #parasites, transmitted by sand flies, spread throughout the body.
    nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026

  9. La literatura ha informado de, al menos, una decena de casos de garrapatas (Ixodes) en ojos humanos. No es común, pero no imposible. 📷Kun Hsi Chu et al., 2025 #salud #health #parasitos #parasites

  10. Thousands of cyclosporiasis cases across 34+ US states this summer — and just when the CDC traced it to lettuce, the lead turned out to be a false positive. 🥬🔬

    The real source? Still unknown.

    #publichealth #outbreak #parasites #foodsafety

    scentsofscience.com/2026/07/29

  11. Behold the jackal food. Rather than using photosynthesis to make food, this parasite siphons nutrients from host plants. The corpse-like stench of its fruit attracts jackals & other carnivores... but how does it taste? Its texture & flavor have been compared to that of a potato!
    @AMNH #globalmuseum #parasites

  12. When organisms colonize new environments, they can experience release from previous parasites. Bolnick et al. use an experiment to track how this release leads to large fluctuations in infection rates, as well as immune evolution.

    Read now ahead of print!
    journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1

    #Immunity #Parasites #EEB

  13. So "In 2024 a single person needed to earn £28,000 for minimum acceptable standard of living". Anyone care to guess how much a single person receives on Universal Credit?

    Then can you tell me how the hell they survive, because I have no clue how they do it?

    Every MP who votes for #WelfareReform should be made to exist on that sum, without access to any savings, for at least a year.

    F'ing #Parasites

    bsky.app/profile/premnsikka.bs

    #Equality #Inequality #InequalityKills #LiNO

  14. If eliminated, it would be an amazing achievement.

    "Globally, Guinea worm has declined from an estimated 3.56 million cases across 20 countries in 1986 to just 14 human cases in 5 countries in 2023 — mostly through bottom-up, low-technology efforts similar to those in South Sudan. What’s more, this has been achieved despite the lack of a vaccine or drug treatment for the parasite."

    nature.com/articles/d41586-024

    #Diseases #Parasites #GuineaWorm #TropicalDiseases

  15. CW: Infestation [Swarm Beast, Worms, Oral/Ear/Anal/Urethral]

    Looks like another person feel into the hands for a Swarm Beast~
    [Finished commission for a person that wishes to remain anonymous.]

    #Infestation #Urethral #Furry #Art #Porn #NSFW #Sounding #Parasites #Worms #MonsterPorn

  16. le retard de prise en charge médicale à cause du bullshit New age, c'est ce qui fait que ce mois ci mon père a un œil aveugle sans aucune chance de guérison alors que ça aurait pu être évité à son âge.

    inpectez vos vieux qui sont empêtré dans du #bullshit de pseudo science, mais n'espérez pas faire de miracle.

    #bullshit

    un moyen ou deux de se prémunir de ça ce serait de lire ou écouter ce que publie l'#AFIS et #metadechoc, ou #conspiracywatch, mais des fois on ne peut juste rien faire.

    #science #pseudoscience #médecine #chamanisme #parasites #sectes #dérivesSectaires #miviludes

  17. The prospect of a better treatment for Chagas disease and sleeping sickness blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbit

    #Cyanotriazoles are selective topoisomerase II poisons that rapidly cure trypanosome infections science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    "#NeglectedTropicalDiseases caused by #SingleCelled #parasites (#trypanosomatids) include #ChagasDisease, #SleepingSickness & #leishmaniasis. Progress in treatment of these #diseases had been slow, though large chemical library screens are now showing promising results."