Parasites are organisms that feed off their hosts for survival. Such parasitic creatures can cause mild to serious symptoms and, in some cases, fatal infections in their hosts. “Overall, parasites ...

Sometime during the Roman Empire, residents of two garrison towns along the lower Danube relieved themselves into squat ...

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

The human gut hosts a wide variety of microbial species including bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Intestinal parasites were also once a typical part of this community; healthy humans played host to ...

A dangerous tapeworm, not found in Pacific Northwest wildlife until this year, is more widespread than researchers expected.

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Rat lungworm has been detected in San Diego animals, but local officials say the risk of its spread to Santa Barbara is low.