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parasites

n. (plural of parasite English)

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Parasites (band)

Parasites are an American pop-punk band. They were formed in the late 80's by guitarist / singer Dave Parasite and bassist Ron Nole in New Jersey. Dave later relocated to Berkeley, California, and continued with a new lineup during the heyday of Lookout! Records and the Bay Area pop-punk revival. The Parasites have had many personnel changes over their long career, with the most notable members being drummer Dan Cofer and his brother Scott Cofer, both formerly of the 80s thrash-metal band Pillage Sunday.

Parasites have been releasing records since 1987 and toured the US, Europe and Japan extensively. They have played with Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, Bad Religion, Buzzcocks, Jawbreaker, The Queers, L7, Teenage Bottlerocket, The Mr. T Experience, The Smoking Popes, Dillinger 4, The Ataris, Swingin' Utters, Weston, Ben Weasel, The Ergs, The Methadones, The Lillingtons, Squirtgun, D.O.A., Los Crudos, Sloppy Seconds, Dan Vapid and the Cheats, Down By Law, Avail, J Church, Travoltas, The Apers, Banner Pilot, Iron Chic, Boris The Sprinkler, FYP, Lemuria, Masked Intruder, and thousands of other bands. Parasites have toured in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2002.

After taking a break in 2003, the band released Retro-Pop Remasters , a "Best Of" compilation in 2006, on Go Kart Records, and several new studio CDs: "Solitary" in 2009, and "Non Stop Power Pop" in 2012, both on Kid Tested Records, Dave Parasite's imprint label of Go Kart Records, and a track on a 4 way split 7" in 2013. Since resuming in 2006, the band has toured in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, and a 28 band Parasites Tribute album, Paracomp, was released in 2015.

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Next, I put some of the saliva through the centrifuge, just to be sure the parasites and the viruses did indeed separate out at different densities.

That meant the parasites could be transferred to and from an array of other warm-blooded hosts, including rats.

I was too far away to make out the platelet parasites around them, but a sense of diffused light there -- like dust floating -- suggested their presence by the thousands or millions.

Each new mutation led to parasites which could prey on earlier parasites.

When you see the Pope and his parasites, tell them that those to whom I must report did not want the girl alive.

The majority of the born-again and Pax military had deserted outright, seeking out communion to rid themselves of the cruciform parasites and shunning the Pax loyalists.

They had a complete understanding of the altered genetic mechanisms that let the malaria parasites colonize sickled blood cells, where no malaria parasites had ever been able to boldly go before.

Shortly thereafter, Kira is contacted by General Taulin Cyl of the Trill Defense Ministry, who informs her that he has information about the parasites, which are still a clear and present danger not only to Bajor, but the entire Federation.

We now believe the parasites are either slow to spread, or their numbers are small.

Girani answered as best she could, but it was apparent that research on the parasites was still in its earliest stages.

DS9, claiming, as Gard had, that the parasites wanted to destroy Trill.

For all they knew, the parasites meant genocide for the Bajoran people.

DNA codings between the symbionts and the parasites were similar, from the same gene family.

As far I know, no one ever put forth the theory that the parasites were engineered.

I mean is that maybe the reason no one has ever suggested the possibility that the parasites were engineered from symbionts is precisely because no one wanted that to be known.