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Alitta virens (common names include sandworm, sea worm, and king ragworm; older scientific names, including Nereis virens, are still frequently used) is an annelid worm that burrows in wet sand and mud. They construct burrows of different shapes (I,U,J and Y) [2] They range from being very complex to very simple. Long term burrows are held ...
Sandworm is an advanced persistent threat operated by Military Unit 74455, a cyberwarfare unit of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service. [3] Other names for the group, given by cybersecurity researchers, include APT44 , [ 4 ] Telebots , Voodoo Bear , IRIDIUM , Seashell Blizzard , [ 5 ] and Iron Viking .
Dracunculiasis, also called Guinea-worm disease, is a parasitic infection by the Guinea worm, Dracunculus medinensis. A person becomes infected by drinking water contaminated with Guinea-worm larvae that reside inside copepods (a type of small crustacean). Stomach acid digests the copepod and releases the Guinea worm, which penetrates the ...
Sang that somewhere to north or west or south. There dwelt a gay, exulting, gentle race. Under the golden or the silver skies. — W.B. Yeats. Cartoonist Piers Baker created a syndicated comic strip called Ollie and Quentin, with a buddy storyline about Ollie, a seagull and Quentin, a lugworm.
The symptoms of leishmaniasis are skin sores which erupt weeks to months after the person is bitten by infected sand flies. Leishmaniasis may be divided into the following types: [ 15 ] Cutaneous leishmaniasis is the most common form, which causes an open sore at each bite site, which heals in a few months to a year and half, leaving an ...
The 65-year-old actor said he had no symptoms until a cold left him with a golf ball-sized swelling in his groin. A visit to the doctor for the unusual lump ultimately led to Coulier’s cancer ...
Sloth fever virus is most common in sloths (hence, the name), plus birds and non-human primates like monkeys. But it can spread to people through the bite of certain insects like mosquitoes.
Sapovirus is a genetically diverse genus of single-stranded positive-sense RNA, non-enveloped viruses within the family Caliciviridae. [1] [2] Together with norovirus, sapoviruses are the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis (commonly called the "stomach flu" although it is not related to influenza) in humans and animals.