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 ...

Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place ...

Why do parasites harm their hosts? That's a question evolutionary biologists ask as they try to predict how a parasite might ...

More than 90 percent of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contain a parasite that is capable of inducing strokes or heart attacks in the humans who eat them. Researchers said the ...

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

A new study, conducted by researchers from the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, have revealed that Leishmania adaptation is a consequence of ...

If you've handled cat litter or eaten raw meat or unwashed produce, there’s a chance you might have a permanent toxoplasmosis infection spread throughout your body. When you purchase through links on ...

Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall weren’t just defending the frontier—they were also battling parasites that made daily life ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Lantigua-Taveras was one of nine people arrested at a Clinton shopping center when a ...

(Left:) Close-up of the parasites that infected a man after a kidney donation and caused bruising (right) on his stomach. A man who received a donated kidney returned to the hospital 10 weeks after ...