Parasitic worms that infect humans are not interbreeding with those that infect cattle as previously thought. This is good news for when it comes to controlling schistosomiasis, a disease caused by these worms that affects more than 200 million people globally.
For more than a decade, evidence suggested that worm species that infect humans and cattle, Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma bovis, were trading genes frequently — a process called hybridization. This caused concern among…
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