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Male fertility rates have been plummeting over the past half-century. An analysis from 1992 noted a steady decrease in sperm counts and quality since the 1940s. A more recent study found that male ...

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Parasitic nematodes (commonly known as roundworms) are a large, diverse and poorly studied group of disease-causing organisms ...

TIME: Emmitt Jolly, professor of biology, said parasites are the most successful form of life. He described the most common parasites that infect humans—such as toxoplasma, giardia and tapeworms—and ...

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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 ...

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