White-tailed deer have their own form of malaria
Long-overlooked parasite turns up in southeastern U.S.

MISSED IT Decades of research on white-tailed deer have missed a malaria parasite now confirmed with new evidence. Here, researchers are working with a deer they temporarily trapped during a survey for parasites.
Lisa H. Ware/Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
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