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Mimicking sugar structures in plants plays a crucial role in the development of effective vaccines against the stomach worm Ostertagia ostertagi. This has been demonstrated by Ruud Wilbers of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) together with researchers from Ghent University and Leiden University Medical Center with a proof-of-concept study.
A live, eight-centimetre-long worm was removed from the brain of a 64-year-old Australian woman by doctors in the world’s first case of a new kind of parasitic infection in humans.
Many of us attempt to avoid thinking about them, while others have come to terms with them. Whatever your feelings on parasites, scientists can learn a lot about ecology, health, and the environment from them.