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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. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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."