Babesiosis, a rare tick-borne illness, is spreading through parts of the U.S. The disease could be especially dangerous for ...

Scientists have revealed how a parasite that affects millions of people every year evades our immune defenses.

Babesiosis typically occurs in the Northeast and the Upper Midwest, but new research suggests rare cases are emerging in the ...

Parasites are one such problem you may encounter ... from one animal to another through infected blood. While it is rare for ...

The parasite’s larvae are known to infect aquatic ... renale infections are rare in humans, they can have serious consequences. The worm invades the kidney tissue, often destroying it completely ...

The parasite enters the body and then multiplies in the liver. In humans, the fox tapeworm can cause an extremely rare liver-related infection known as alveolar echinococcosis (AE) that can lead ...

Entamoeba histolytica is a particularly tenacious parasite. The single-celled amoeba generally arrives in the colon after ...

The diagnosis: The microbiological examination confirmed that the species was a rare parasite called Dioctophyma ... around 37 cases of infections in humans by this particular species had been ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered how a parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito ...