Rare blind 'snake' rediscovered in Brazil...

"The unique creature, Atretochoana eiselti, was found after engineers drained a hydroelectric dam which spans a river connected to the Amazon ( Read more... )

Parasitic filarial nematodes, and their larval stages, are responsible for heartworm, filarial elephantiasis,river blindness, loa loa, and Strongyloidiasis. Strongyloides is an unusual one - it infects baboons, chimps & humans, & it's equally happy as a parasite and as a free living nematode ( Read more... )