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 News Item (Source/Date Posted on Source)

Almost 40% of drinking water below standard (The Irish Times/ 11/04)

Scientists Sequence Genome of Intestinal Parasite that Afflicts Hikers and Kids in Daycare (National Institutes of Health/ 9/27)

FDA Warns Consumers about the Risk of Cryptosporidium Illness from Baby’s Bliss Gripe Water (CFSAN/FDA/ 9/20)

Giardiasis Surveillance --- United States, 2003--2005 (MMWR/CDC / 9/07)

Cryptosporidiosis Surveillance --- United States, 2003--2005 (MMWR/CDC/ 9/07)

Trichinellosis outbreak in Bavaria caused by cured sausage from Romania, January 2007 (Eurosurveillance/ 8/23)

TRYPANOSOMIASIS, FOODBORNE - BRAZIL (AMAZONIA) (ProMEDMail/ 8/21)

Outbreak of trichinellosis in north-western Poland, June 2007 (Eurosurveillance/ 7/12)

Learning from animals (International Food Safety Network/KSU/ 6/05)

Mutant parasites, unable to infect hosts, highlight virulence genes (University of Wisconsin-Madison/ 5/30)

APHIS Proposes Voluntary Trichinae Certification Program (American Meat Institute/ 5/15)

Keep Crypto Out of Your Summer Swimming Experience (Iowa Department of Health/ 5/11)

Toxoplasmosis infection trick revealed by scientists (EurekAlert!/ 5/10)

Filtering Out the Bad Stuff (ACS PressPac/Chemical and Engineering News/ 4/23)

TRICHINELLOSIS - RUSSIA (KRASNOYARSK) (ProMED Mail/ 4/22)

Merck donates pills for parasitic disease in Africa (Reuters Health/ 4/19)

CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS - IRELAND (GALWAY) (ProMED Mail/ 4/09)

Parasite brainwashes mice with a suicidal love for cats (Boston Globe/ 4/09)

Holy water hit in Irish bug scare (BBC News/ 3/29)

How parasites keep the gene pool healthy (U.K./ BBSRC/ 3/22)

CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS - AUSTRALIA (SOUTH AUSTRALIA) (ProMED Mail/ 3/21)

FOODBORNE ILLNESS, FATAL, BOAR - NEPAL: TRICHINELLOSIS SUSPECTED (ProMED Mail/ 3/19)

Outbreak of trichinellosis in Spain and Sweden due to consumption of wild boar meat contaminated with Trichinella britovi (Eurosurveillance/ 3/15)

Overview: Parasitic Diseases Thrive in AIDS' Shadow (NPR/ 3/14)

Epic of Human Migration Is Carved in Parasites’ DNA (The New York Times/ 3/13)

Retail Meat Analyzed for Parasites (USDA/ARS /2/14)

Parasites 'may help MS patients' (BBC News / 1/16)

One gene 90 percent responsible for making common parasite dangerous (Washington University / 12/12)

Women infected with toxoplasmosis are more likely to have boys (Springer 10/11)

Cryptosporidiosis in England and Wales (CDR Weekly / 10/5)

Cattle Protozoa Help Shift Antibiotic Resistance (USDA-ARS / 10/3)

Discovery of metabolic pathway for parasite could lead to new controls for diseases (Eurek Alert / 8/14)

Trichinella and Toxoplasma Found in Pigs Captured Outside Carroll County Farm (Maryland Dept. of Agriculture / 7/20)

Study shows that parasites form the thread of food webs (Eurek Alert / 7/12)

A Common Parasite Reveals Its Strongest Asset: Stealth (New York Times / 6/20)

Full year of treatment helps infants and children with toxoplasmosis (Eurek Alert / 5/15)

CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS, BOTSWANA: SUSPECTED (ProMed Mail / 4/4)

Cat parasite 'is killing otters' (BBC News / 2/19)

Microbes Strengthen Inside Animals' Protozoa (USDA ARS / 2/2)

An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in Wales, November 2005 (Eurosurveillance Weekly / 12/8)