Parasites

While a roundworm in a human brain gets the headlines, the impact of preventable parasites and infectious diseases for some Indigenous and remote communities is a national shame

Scientists have discovered a new drug target to block the world’s deadliest malaria parasite from spreading

Australian and Pacific researchers are spearheading a global effort to eradicate scabies, a skin condition caused by a tiny parasitic mite that leads to ‘traumatic itching’ in millions of people every year

Researchers have discovered fish have an innate ability to avoid parasite infection, paving the way for new methods to prevent outbreaks in farmed populations

The discovery of the huge diversity in malaria genes that disguise the parasite from our immune systems shows we’ve been fighting malaria as if it were measles, when we should think of it as flu