parasite
Example Sentences
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Wastewater typically also contains viruses, chemicals, parasites and pharmaceuticals, among other contaminants.
“Vitamin C, zinc, key lime. I do my bees and my glutathione, and then I do my black walnuts because that’s a part of helping kill the parasites in the body.”
From Los Angeles Times
A parasite that may already be living in your brain has the ability to infect the very immune cells designed to eliminate it.
From Science Daily
Costs will likely stay elevated as consumer demand remains robust, while it takes years to rebuild American herds depleted by drought and import restrictions over a parasite.
From Barron's
The illness is caused by the generalist parasite Plasmodium relictum and has played a central role in the steep declines and extinctions of native Hawaiian honeycreepers.
From Science Daily
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