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A Brazilian mountain is home to a surprising number of parasitic wasps

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The tropics are teeming with life, tending to hold far more species than milder environments closer to the poles. But one group of insects, the Darwin wasps, were thought to buck that trend.

Researchers who compared wasp diversity in the United Kingdom and the United States with tropical areas in the 1970s and ’80s concluded that these wasps were most diverse at mid-latitudes — say, Kentucky or England. But others thought that people just weren’t looking hard enough in the

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Warning to holidaymakers as post-Covid travel boom sparks record spike in cases of parasitic worms

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Holidaymakers were today warned about the dangers of parasites abroad after a record number of Brits were struck down last year.

A post-Covid travel boom to exotic destinations may be to blame, experts say.

Nearly 1,000 cases of travel-associated parasitic infections were detected in the UK last year, up from an average of 870 pre-pandemic.

Such illnesses include leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and strongyloidiasis, which are spread by insect bites or parasitic worms. 

The bugs can infect organs and trigger long-term damage

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