A microscopic parasite that can live for decades in the human brain infects an estimated one-third of the world's population ...

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...

If vitamin C stops cancer in its tracks, and being deficient in it can cause scurvy — the disease long associated with ...

A common parasite expands across species by abandoning sex, boosting short-term spread while risking long-term collapse.

The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health ...

Parasites are well known for sucking energy from their hosts, but can they drain energy from hosts even before infection? A new study by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of ...

Scientists discovered that river otter droppings contain large numbers of parasites that infect the animals’ prey, indicating that otters may play a significant role in shaping local food webs.

Archaeologists analyzing a Roman sewer at Vindolanda uncover evidence soldiers lived with chronic gut parasites despite ...

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhoea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal species, offering new insights into how parasitic infections emerge and ...