Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that invades the human gut, often causing mild symptoms like diarrhea. But in ...

The human gut hosts a wide variety of microbial species including bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Intestinal parasites were also once a typical part of this community; healthy humans played host to ...

Chamber pots from the frontier of the Roman Empire have provided the world's earliest evidence of humans infected with the ...

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Researchers analyzing 1,800-year-old chamber pots from Roman-era towns in the Balkans have found the earliest known evidence of the parasite Cryptosporidium in Europe, overturning assumptions it ...