Although Cryptosporidium News Today

Although Cryptosporidium is now identified as one of the leading causes of diarrheal disease among young children, this is a fairly recent development. Cryptosporidium (or Crypto) was first recognized as a human pathogen in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until 2013, when results from a major clinical and epidemiological survey conducted across Africa and Asia were published, that the true threat of this parasite became clear. Since then, additional multi-country studies and several smaller scale ...