Parasites are nasty little buggers that sometimes contaminate our food and water and make us sick. According to the World Health Organization, parasites affect approximately 50 million people worldwide per year and 40,, people die from them annually. Intestinal parasites can work their way into our food by being prepared by someone with poor hygiene… Read More »
Drain, dry and examine. Footnotes The authors declare no conflict of interest. This may be explained by partial antimalarial treatment or by sequestration of parasitised cells in deep vascular beds. However, P. The ability to detect the majority of the non- falciparum malaria cases also makes these tests ideally suited as major backup procedures for… Read More »
by Samar Habib Standing in front of a mirror in my parents’ home, aged 30, single and shamefully broke, I slapped myself in the face as hard as I could. How could you be so stupid? And again, slap! You’re so stupid! And again, and again, and again, and again, until I couldn’t take the pain anymore. You’re such an… Read More »