Common brain parasite can infect your immune cells, but that's probably OK. (IMAGE)

University of Virginia Health System

Common brain parasite can infect your immune cells, but that's probably OK.

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Tajie Harris, PhD, is the director of the Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG Center) at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

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