Cryptosporidium: Cryptosporidium is a protozoan that causes a diarrheal illness similar to Giardia. Symptoms include watery diarrhea, headache, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and low-grade fever ...

An antigen is any substance that prompts your body to trigger an immune response against it. Antigens include allergens, bacteria and viruses. Antibodies are Y-shaped proteins that the body produces ...

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Giardia parasites mimic human cell functions to break apart cells in the gut and feed inside, researchers found. This also allows bacteria already present in the body to join in and feed from the ...

The UK Health and Security Agency says it is trying to find the source of the outbreak of cryptosporidium. Cryptosporidium is a tiny organism that causes an illness in people and some animals ...

Researchers have provided details about one of the largest Cryptosporidium outbreaks in England in recent years. The outbreak of Cryptosporidium parvum was associated with a multi-day lamb petting ...

She has tried dozens of COVID-19 antigen tests—including while sick with COVID-19. Beginning “at the end of September,” US households can again order free tests through CovidTests.gov.

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Researchers investigating a vomiting bug caused by the cryptosporidium parasite discovered it on ready-to-eat vegetables sold ...