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    A hopeful time for Cryptosporidium research (link is external)

    Boris Striepen of Penn Vet organized the First Biennial Cryptosporidium Meeting, bringing together researchers and clinicians from around the world to discuss the problems and progress around the parasite and…

    Navigating cytokine storms (link is external)

    It’s a trajectory followed by many who experience a severe case of COVID-19: They feel poorly for a few days, improve over a day or two and then, a week…

    With a protein ‘delivery,’ parasite can suppress its host’s immune response (link is external)

    Toxoplasma gondii is best known as the parasite that may lurk in a cat’s litter box. Nearly a third of the world’s population is believed to live with a chronic…