I definately think there is a link between parasites and mercury. I was diagnosed with mercury toxicity, 2 kinds of yeasts, and many parasites! Round worm, tape worm, toxoplasma, some kind of ameba. And I'm not even mentioning the "bad" bacteria that was found. The parasites and yeast soak up the mercury like a sponge. This helps us by getting rid of the mercury and helps the parasites by making them more resistant to being killed.
I'm about to go to sleep tonight, but will try to find some of my links tomorow with some more information on this.

The whole thing is such a vicious cycle. It is hard to say which came first for me. I think as the mercury was building up in my body, I was distroying the health of my gut at the same time with antibiotics and a very high sugar diet.
Once my gut was in such poor shape, the parasites had a perfect place to live. I think the parasites are gone now, but I can not get re-tested until May. A lot of the parasties are detected by having the antibodies for them in us. It takes time to get rid of the antibody after the parasite is killed.
chigirl