Scientists report unusually high Chagas disease parasite rates in kissing bugs collected near the U.S.-Mexico border region.

A dog in the San Fernando Valley was found to have Baylisascaris, or raccoon roundworm, eggs in its system during a routine ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden battle between a widespread brain parasite and the immune cells tasked with destroying it. A parasite that can quietly persist in the human brain is capable of ...

Higher temperatures may make monarch butterflies more vulnerable to parasites, according to new research from the University ...

A common parasite expands across species by abandoning sex, boosting short-term spread while risking long-term collapse.

Dear Doctors: A co-worker is doing something called a parasite cleanse. She says if you have symptoms like gas, muscle aches, insomnia and feel hungry all the time, it means you have parasites. How ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that ...

If vitamin C stops cancer in its tracks, and being deficient in it can cause scurvy — the disease long associated with ...

The Chagas disease has been found in 5 states. — -- A rare parasitic infection called Chagas disease has been gaining headlines in recent weeks after cases of the infection were reported in at ...

Acanthamoeba keratitis is a rare but blinding parasitic eye disease. Experts share how to avoid it and treat it.

Researchers found that an asexual lineage of Giardia can infect more host species than sexual strains by bypassing genetic ...