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Parasites in sentence

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Molas are infamous for carrying tons of parasites.
They're just parasite hotels; even their parasites have parasites.
But they have 40 genera of parasites, and so we figured just one more parasite won't be too much of a problem.
The most important health challenges today are not caused by simple mutations in our genome, but rather result from a complex and dynamic interplay between genetic variation, diet, microbes and parasites and our immune response.
Since we also know that people that carry malaria parasites smell different compared to people that are uninfected, she's convinced that we can train dogs to find people that carry the parasite.
That means that in a population where malaria has gone down all the way and there's few people remaining with parasites, that the dogs can find these people, we can treat them with antimalarial drugs and give the final blow to malaria.
And on top of everything else, bees have their own set of diseases and parasites.
Because the tapeworm, like many other parasites, has a complicated life cycle involving many different hosts.
They are part of an entire cavalcade of mind-controlling parasites, of fungi, viruses, and worms and insects and more that all specialize in subverting and overriding the wills of their hosts.
It's like the parasites have subverted my own brain.
When you write about parasites, your lexicon swells with phrases like "devoured alive" and "bursts out of its body."
Parasites invite us to resist the allure of obvious stories.
Now, some of you are probably just desperately clawing for some solace in the idea that these things are oddities of the natural world, that they are outliers, and that point of view is understandable, because by their nature, parasites are quite small and they spend a lot of their time inside the bodies of other things.
A few years back, a man called Kevin Lafferty took a group of scientists into three Californian estuaries and they pretty much weighed and dissected and recorded everything they could find, and what they found were parasites in extreme abundance.
Once the parasites get in, the hosts don't get a say.
But our attempts at doing this are crude and blundering compared to the fine-grained specificity of the parasites.
Now, I think this is part of what makes parasites so sinister and so compelling.
Which leads me to an obvious and disquieting question: Are there dark, sinister parasites that are influencing our behavior without us knowing about it, besides the NSA?
We are more intelligent than a mere rat, to be sure, but our brains have the same basic structure, the same types of cells, the same chemicals running through them, and the same parasites.
And I think that this capacity to constantly subvert our way of thinking about the world makes parasites amazing.
And while that idea may be disquieting, and while parasites' habits may be very grisly, I think that ability to surprise us makes them as wonderful and as charismatic as any panda or butterfly or dolphin.
Malaria parasites.
Not so much different from us, they can use plants to treat their intestinal parasites.
Intriguingly, what they do is they actually transmit the parasites when they're laying the eggs.
This decline appears too big to be explained by the usual causes of bee death alone: disease, parasites or starvation.
Pesticides used both on commercial beehives and agricultural crops to ward off parasites could be getting into the food and water that honeybees consume.
And like most parasites, it can begin dangerous, but then it coevolves and adapts, and we end up with a symbiotic relationship with this new parasite.
Might these subarctic species introduce diseases or parasites into the Arctic?
This one allows us to identify malaria parasites by running them for a little longer, and we can identify malaria parasites that are in the blood that we can separate out and detect with something like a centrifuge.
Now, with nobody minding the ethics of the store, these sites can profile people who are Jew haters, who think that Jews are parasites and who have such explicit anti-Semitic content, and let you target them with ads.
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