A medical student hopes her award-winning invention for detecting a deadly water parasite could save thousands of people from the risk of infection.

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

People may become infected when they eat unwashed produce hiding the mollusks. Home-growing food and keeping pets also raises the risk.

This protozoan causes dysentery and is notoriously difficult to detect in archaeological samples because, unlike worms, it ...

Wild bees across the west face a growing threat from microscopic parasites. Last week an Oregon researcher visited USU’s ...

As tough as medieval chainmail armor and as soft as a contact lens. This material is not taken from science fiction, it is a ...

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Parasite can survive in chlorine for days. — -- A hardy parasite has led federal health officials to warn pool goers to be careful in the water this summer. Outbreaks related to pools, hot tubs ...

Theileria, a tick-borne parasite impacting cattle, may be spreading across Kansas in more ways that originally believed. The ...

Brandi Glanville, the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, has finally reached the moment she spent two years desperately searching for. After publicly insisting a “parasite” had warped her ...