parasites

China has its first cases of Angiostrongylus cantonensis being transmitted through the consumption of live centipedes. It's on CNN, so (as obvious with the headline) is looking for the "OMG! Eeew!" audience, but the article is interesting from a scientific point of view. I'm personally...

More at: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/8873/2/ Quite scary if true. :scared:

The silly naturopath in my city writes a semi-regular article for the local weekly paper. One of the things she mentioned in this issue was that she had attended a "biological medicine" conference where she learned the new theory that viruses, bacteria, and parasites were simply the same...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125090339313750961.html Worrisome, it sounds.

Since I've been blogging on and off about the infestation of squirrel botflies in the woods behind my house, and the resulting lumpy squirrels, somebody asked me my opinion on these the other day, and I'd never heard of them. http://www.skinparasites.com/ (No icky photos or anything.) Other...