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  1. Health & Medicine

    Soldiers in Iraq coming down with parasitic disease

    Hundreds of U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have contracted leishmaniasis, a parasite-borne disease that attacks the skin.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2000

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2000.

    By Science News
  3. Health & Medicine

    Probing a parasite for vulnerability

    Researchers have discovered an enzyme that is indispensable to the parasite that causes sleeping sickness, and disabling that enzyme could offer a novel treatment strategy for the disease.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Health & Medicine

    Preventive drugs protect children

    Preventive treatment with inexpensive drugs decreases rainy-season cases of malaria in Senegal.