Modern Medicine: Parasites

Can parasites change your behaviour? And what diseases can they cause? Join infectious disease specialists at the cutting edge of medical research as they share their expertise on the latest science about parasites.

Joanne explores how toxoplasma can alter the behaviour of its hosts – from fatal feline attraction in rats to schizophrenia in humans.

Some parasites can cause not just one, but multiple diseases. Catherine uncovers how a malaria infection can cause a whole spectrum of human diseases.

This event was funded through the generosity of the Joyce Grainger Charitable Trust.

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Professor Catherine Merrick is Professor of Parasitology at the University of Cambridge

Professor Joanne Webster is Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Royal Veterinary College and Director of the Global Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research