parasite
Example Sentences
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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
Abdirahman, a 60-year-old grandmother, was bitten while herding livestock in Mandera county in Kenya's northeast, a hotspot for the parasite but with only three treatment facilities capable of treating the disease.
From Barron's
As in a Tom Wolfe novel, the main characters suffered while the spectators and parasites thrived.
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