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“Brain Eater”: vacationers should protect themselves against this
What a horror: while bathing, a man in Pakistan became infected with a brain-eating amoeba - he died. And we have these beasts...
Man dead after swimming in pool after being infected with ‘brain-eating’ amoeba
It sounds like the plot of a macabre horror movie: In Pakistan, a man died after visiting a swimming pool from a rare infection...
Climate change increases the risk of infectious diseases
According to a recently published report by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), there will be an increased risk of infectious diseases in Germany in...
With cyanide and ricin – Iranians are said to have planned an attack in Germany
In Castrop-Rauxel in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, anti-terror investigators have arrested a 32-year-old man who allegedly prepared an Islamic attack using toxic...
Parasitic infection makes wolves pack leaders
Gray wolves infected with toxoplasmosis become pack leaders much more often than uninfected conspecifics. The neuroparasite probably makes the animals more aggressive, which...
