• Question: what parasites are the most deadly

    Asked by anon-355924 to Rebecca W on 15 Mar 2023.
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      Rebecca Woods answered on 15 Mar 2023:

      The parasite that causes the most deaths is the plasmodium parasite (technically 5 subspecies), which causes malaria for which there are treatments, but still causes around 600,000 deaths/year. I think Naegleria fowleri is probably the deadliest, anything called brain-eating ameba is something I want to stay away from.

      Here’s a video about plasmodium that I helped make for world malaria day.

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