Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the Cryptosporidium parasite exports a protein into infected ...

Through detailed hand-drawn illustrations made with acrylic paint of over 100 parasites, Lindsey Munson hopes to spark ...

Rise of the Zombie Bugs” explores how parasites create real-life zombies in the insect and invertebrate world.

and their bites transmit the spores so that the parasitic fungus can spread to more hosts. While that bloodthirsty behavioral quirk doesn’t manifest in actual ant zombies, the physical appearance of ...

No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven't accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm infection that masquerades as a cancerous liver tumor while it slowly destroys ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

A long, writhing worm was found next to a dead huntsman spider on the ledge of a bathtub – so what does it all mean? The ...

The rise in zoonotic malaria has been linked to factors such as deforestation. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that continues to pose a serious health threat in tropical and subtropical regions, ...

"Trypanosomes have evolved specialized motion to survive in both the tsetse fly and the human bloodstream ... into fundamental aspects of parasite adaptation and host interactions." ...

Beneath the icy waters of the Antarctic, scientists have uncovered a chilling new threat lurking in the deep. Parasitic ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins issued a scathing letter to her Mexican counterpart Saturday threatening to block the ...