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After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

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The reason a woman in Thailand suffered from pain and itching around her eyes was found to be heartworms that dogs and cats often catch, which is shocking. Heartworms are mosquito-borne roundworms and ...