Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that invades the human gut, often causing mild symptoms like diarrhea. But in ...

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Parasites are real, but social media tends to make them sound like a daily certainty, which is not how it works for most ...