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For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It ...

A team of Vermont researchers has discovered that mysterious black skin lesions afflicting catfish in Lake Memphremagog and ...

The hard, and nauseating, truth about cyclospora is that it’s spread through human feces. Over decades of research, ...

Amid a nationwide outbreak of cyclosporiasis, we dug into our archives for investigations into parasitic organisms.

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