During a call with U.S. doctors this month, one CDC official noted that there is a seasonality to bird flu: Cases peak in the ...

Hundreds of parasites have the ability to infect humans, including lice, mites and ticks. However, parasite cleanses ...

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that ...

The blacklegged tick is perhaps the biggest threat because it’s the only tick species that can transmit Lyme disease, a ...

Prices will go up with the halt on Mexican cattle imports, but the border closure won't help eradicate the parasite.

The field of One Health, which emphasizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health, has become a ...

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

Tennessee State Veterinarian Dr. Samantha Beaty is urging animal owners in the state to be aware of an invasive pest after it ...

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 ...

People are typically infected via contact with faeces containing the parasite, either from humans or animals, that then enters their mouth. Risk of water supplies becoming infected is also ...