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The World's Biggest Study on Parasites Has Found Something Terrible. They're Dying.

ScienceAlert · Carly Cassella · last updated

Parasites are not all bad, and in a rapidly changing world, they need our protection, but they don’t seem to be getting it. In fact, in the second-largest estuary in the United States, scientists have cataloged a mass die-off among marine organisms that rely on free-living hosts to survive.

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