The reemergence of the New World screwworm, which poses significant health risks for livestock, has prompted the Department ...

People in Florida are having to worry about a unique disease-carrying insect known as the kissing bug. New research shows ...

The flesh-eating parasite was thought to have been eradicated but has made a gruesome comeback, devouring one woman's lungs ...

Coughing: Not all dogs will develop this symptom, but when the worms migrate through the body, they can damage the lungs and ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

Interest in the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin skyrocketed during the covid-19 pandemic, but evidence for many of its ...

A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the ...

A shocking new study shows that 90% of freshwater fish in Southern California may be carrying parasites that can infect ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

Much later, in the 19th Century, swimming pools emerged in Britain and the US. But along with them came the challenge of ...

A large-scale study tracing human disease history back 37,000 years has identified harmful bacteria, viruses and parasites ...

The 61-year-old man received a new kidney from a deceased donor after being diagnosed with “nephrosclerosis-related end-stage ...