- In the past few years, there has been a rise of parasitic infections occurring in pools and hot tubs, despite being treated with chlorine.
- Biologist Jonathan D. Allen had to use surgery-grade forceps to pull a parasitic worm out of his cheek.
- Tests results showed that Naegleria fowleri, the brain-eating parasite, was present in the water system of the DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, just one month after another parish also tested positive.
- Researchers have for the first time discovered how the clever "cat parasite," previously found to alter behavior and increase the risk of self-harm and suicide in infected humans, enters the brain to influence its host.
- Parasites can highjack hosts' nervous systems, making them into walking zombies.
- Lice are a common parasite that affects several children each year. Classrooms are the most common place children are infected with lice.
- Contact lens wearers beware: scientists have warned that people who don't clean that lenses properly are at the mercy of a tap water-dwelling bug that can gnaw through eyeballs and cause blindness.