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Science · ScienceDailyMon, 16 Feb 2026 08:33:46 EST

One in three people carry this brain parasite but the body has a kill switch

A parasite that may already be hiding in your brain has a shocking survival trick: it can infect the very immune cells sent to destroy it. Yet most people never get sick, and new research from UVA Health reveals why. Scientists discovered that when T