Parasite of the Day

In 1967, in the German town of Marburg, 31 people became very ill with a strange new disease - 7 of them died. Many of the people who had b...

As noted by the Jonathan Swift quote at the top of this blog, many parasite themselves are infected with parasites. These obligate parasites...

Mimivirus is part of the Mimiviridae, a group of "giant viruses", which compared with viruses most people are for familiar, with s...