Many tick bites are harmless, but some ticks can transmit pathogens causing diseases such as Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain ...

Bugs in the southeastern US may be spreading deadly, disease-causing parasites, experts warn. Researchers in Florida and Texas spent 10 years tracking the transmission of Chagas disease, a dangerous ...

Research published in The FEBS Journal may help overcome challenges to the treatment of malaria—a tropical disease caused by ...

The greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi signal. Reading time 4 minutes ...

Chamber pots from the frontier of the Roman Empire have provided the world's earliest evidence of humans infected with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In addition to eggs, tissue cysts present in the meat of warm-blooded animals can spread toxoplasmosis as well if they are not ...

The harmless mite Demodex folliculorum, seen here in an electron microscope image, lives in the follicles of eyelashes. They look like tiny tubes with stumpy legs. They can nestle snugly into pores, ...