Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Mummies tell history of a 'modern' plague

Mummies from along the Nile are revealing how age-old irrigation techniques may have boosted the plague of schistosomiasis, a water-borne parasitic disease that infects an estimated 200 million people today.

Medical research

Worm discovery could help 1 billion people worldwide

Scientists have discovered why some people may be protected from harmful parasitic worms naturally while others cannot in what could lead to new therapies for up to one billion people worldwide.

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