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The simple idea that “ will kill parasites in the pancreas” is not supported by current evidence: parasitic infections can rarely involve the pancreas and can, in individual cases, impair pancreatic f...
Medical therapy with praziquantel is broadly effective against many and shows good short-term parasitological cure rates in humans for several liver and intestinal flukes, but species-specific failure...
A small number of clinical case reports document parasites physically invading the pancreas and producing pancreatitis with subsequent insulin deficiency or new-onset diabetes — most notably and isola...