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FDA Approves Xdemvy for Demodex Blepharitis

Significant improvements seen in reduction of collarettes in as early as two weeks

Gender Differences Seen in Toxoplasmosis Eye Disease Symptoms

Women more likely to experience repeat cases and have more than one lesion

Three Modes of Transmission Explain Most Giardiasis Outbreaks

Water exposure, person-to-person contact, contaminated food accounted for more than half of outbreaks in 2012 to 2017

B 1/13 -- New Insights Into How COVID-19 Damages the Brain

Link Between T. gondii Infection, Glioma Risk Examined

Significant increase in glioma risk seen for those with higher antibody titers to the sag-1 antigen

For patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis

Therapeutic Hookworm Explored for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

No effect seen for hookworm versus placebo on number of new/enlarging/enhancing lesions
So-called "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli faces charges of price fixing of a drug used to treat the potentially fatal condition toxoplasmosis.

Drug Price-Fixing Charge Laid Against ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli

Former drug industry executive charged with restricting competition to maintain a monopoly on the drug Daraprim
The first confirmed identification of the bloodsucking "kissing bug" in Delaware involves one that bit a girl on the face last summer

CDC: First Confirmed ID of ‘Kissing Bug’ in Delaware

Triatoma sanguisuga insect can transmit parasite that causes Chagas disease
The drug artesunate -- the World Health Organization-recommended first-line treatment for severe malaria -- will become the first-line treatment for severe malaria in the United States

Guidance Lists New First-Line Treatment for Severe Malaria in the U.S.

With discontinuation of quinidine, IV artesunate is now first-line drug for treatment of malaria
The number of confirmed cases of a parasite-caused illness linked to McDonald's Fresh Express Salad Mix is now 436 in 15 states

CDC: More Than 400 Sickened by McDonald’s Salads

Multistate outbreak of Cyclosporiasis linked to McDonald's Fresh Express Salad Mix
For adults with acute Plasmodium vivax or P. falciparum

KAF156 Active for Adults With Vivax, Falciparum Malaria

Antimalarial activity seen with multiple and single dose, with no serious adverse events