Read more parasite stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/6912/parasite.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:50:41 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70553/sore-throat-may-have-axed-t-rex.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTyrannosaurus rex could have been laid low not by a planetwide dinosaur holocaust or vicious infighting, but by a parasite that still affects modern birds. Researchers have taken a close look at lesions on T. rex fossils once presumed to be battle scars and concluded that they are the work...http://www.newser.com/story/70553/sore-throat-may-have-axed-t-rex.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 12:40:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66019/malaria-jumped-from-chimps-to-humans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe parasite that causes malaria almost certainly jumped from chimpanzees to humans much like the AIDS virus did, National Geographic reports. Scientists initially believed that the malaria parasite that kills over a million people annually was older than humanity. But new research has found that it is a mutant version...http://www.newser.com/story/66019/malaria-jumped-from-chimps-to-humans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 04 Aug 2009 2:53:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53304/star-wars-scientists-take-aim-at-mosquitoes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRocket scientists who worked on ways to beat Soviet missiles a generation ago are now using their lasers to zap mosquitoes, the Wall Street Journal reports. Researchers looking for ways to combat malaria have rejigged "Star Wars" technology to create a contraption that can pick off individual mosquitoes from 100...http://www.newser.com/story/53304/star-wars-scientists-take-aim-at-mosquitoes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 14 Mar 2009 4:06:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/30010/alaskan-salmon-sick-of-climate-change.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAlaskan king salmon are getting sick, and experts have named a culprit: global warming. Marine ecologists say that a rise in "white spot disease" is tied to a 3-decade trend of higher temperatures in the Yukon River, the Los Angeles Times reports. With cold-temperature barriers melting, parasites and bacteria are...http://www.newser.com/story/30010/alaskan-salmon-sick-of-climate-change.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 14 Jun 2008 19:24:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/3452/docs-close-to-stamping-out-guinea-worm.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn a campaign led by Jimmy Carter, world public health authorities have decreased the incidence of guinea worm disease (formally known as dracunculiasis) from 3.5 million cases in 1986 to just over 25,000 in 2006. Guinea worm is a parasite transmitted through water to humans that causes excruciating...http://www.newser.com/story/3452/docs-close-to-stamping-out-guinea-worm.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 23 Jun 2007 13:42:55 CDT