Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Parasites and Health: Trichuriasis
Get the complete picture of the Trichuris trichiura parasite. Information about the whipworm includes its geographical range, agents of infection, life cycle, symptoms, and treatment options.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Parasites and Health: Trypanosomiasis
Get a comprehensive overview of the Trypanosomiasis parasite. Find out its geographical distribution, means of infection, symptoms and treatment options.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Brain Parasites Change Their Host's Behavior
The biggest challenge in a parasite's life is to move from one host to another. Intriguingly, many parasites have evolved the ability to manipulate the behavior of their hosts to improve their own survival- sometimes even by direct brain...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Parasite Tales: The Jewel Wasp's Zombie Slave
This is stranger than science fiction. The jewel wasp and the cockroach have a disgusting and fascinating parasitic relationship. The jewel wasp stuns the cockroach, and months later, a jewel wasp hatches out of the cockroach. At...
Success Link
Success Link: Autobiography of a Parasite
Use this lesson plan as an interesting culmination of a study of parasites. Students use the information they've gathered to write an autobiography of thelife cycle of the parasite of their choice.
University of Nebraska
University of Nebraska State Museum: Parasite Sleuth: Where Parasites Live
This site highlights 10 parasites, including worms, insects, ticks and microorganisms. For each organism you can get information concerning their life cycle and geographic distribution.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext "The Parasite"
This site provides the complete etext for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story, "The Parasite."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Division of Parasitic Diseases
This database includes life cycles, images, and diagnosis information for several parasites that can infect humans. The search does work better using scientific names.
Cells Alive
Cells Alive!: Protozoan Parasites
Two video clips and facts of two different types of protozoan parasites are offered: Giardia lamblia and Entamoeba hystolytica. Images and information are also provided about Cryptosporidium parvum.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Parasites and Health: Taeniasis
This CDC resource will give you a comprehensive understanding of the tapeworm parasite. You can learn how it infects people, where it's found, the symptoms it causes and the way it can be treated.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Examples of Parasitism
Explains what parasitism is and provides a few examples of parasitic relationships.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Obligate Intracellular Parasite
Explains the characteristics of obligate intracellular parasites and gives examples.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Types of Parasites
Different types of parasites that infect humans, dogs, and cats are described.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Parasitic Flatworms
Describes types of flatworms that are parasitic to humans and animals and what their life cycle looks like. Two or more hosts are needed for them to complete their life cycle.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Parasites and Health: Ascariasis
For the complete picture of the roundworm Ascariasis, check out this thorough resource. It investigates geographic range, agents of infection, symptoms and treatment options.
PBS
Pbs Jean Michel Cousteau: Parasite Perils Data Analysis Game
This lesson is designed for Grades 7 and 8 and has learners gather and analyze data from research on salmon populations and the impact of the sea louse on their survival rates. They then apply their findings by looking at how orca whale...
Stanford University
Enterobius Vermicularis
Get the facts on the pinworm parasite. Everything from the history of discovery to public health strategies is available. A life cycle diagram provides a good overview of the problem of disease transmission.
Colorado State University
Colorado State: Insect Parasitic Nematodes
This site provides a general overview of the Insect Parasitic Nematodes (a small round worm). Content includes a look at this worm's life cycle and its benefit/impact on the environment as biological insect control.
Other
Biology of the Goat: Internal Parasites
Goat parasites direct life cycles, indirect life cycles, and survival mechanisms are explained in this competent site.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Parasites and Health: Amebiasis
A very comprehensive over view of the Entamoeba histolytica. Information includes geographic distribution, infection agents, symptoms and treatment.
Other
Malaria Foundation International: Life Cycle of the Malaria Parasite
This site has a diagram of the life cycle of the malaria parasite.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Parasite by Arthur Conan Doyle
The full text of the novel The Parasite by Arthur Conan Doyle. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Roundworm Facts
Characteristics of roundworms, an intestinal parasite, are described, including anatomy, reproduction, habitat, and what happens when a human is infected by them.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pbs News Hour: The Final Fight Against Guinea Worm Lesson Plan
Former President Jimmy Carter visits Sudan on his campaign to end water-borne guinea worm, a debilitating parasite infection.
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