"It is advised to take certain food safety precautions." Officials sound alarm after detecting parasite in region for first ...

Some people online believe many of us have dangerous parasites in our gut and need to flush them out with herbal supplements.

Nearly 850 species of parasites are known to infect people; some, like the potentially deadly plasmodium parasite that causes ...

In the mouse model, the researchers assessed which microbes or chemical mediators passed from mothers might affect offspring ...

Hawaii, the U.S. epicenter for the disease, offers a preview of what may come next.

It infects nearly one-third of the global population, yet its microscopic size makes the Toxoplasma gondii parasite difficult ...

A human case of flesh-eating screwworm was detected in the United States related to the latest outbreak of the parasite in Central America, according to officials. The patient had recently returned to ...

A cat parasite that can infect humans is called toxoplasma and it's a parasite that can live in all cat species. The parasite can spread to almost all other birds and mammals, not just humans, on ...