Researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso have found a sharp increase in the number of insects carrying the parasite ...
Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that transmit Chagas disease in the Borderlands. The bugs were collected near ...
Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or caterpillar — into zombie-like puppets that act against their own interests.
They are known as "kissing bugs," but instead of spreading love, they transmit a parasitic disease that can be deadly. Chagas disease is considered endemic; it's present in 21 countries in the ...
Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that transmit Chagas disease in the Borderlands. The bugs were collected near ...
National and Kansas healthcare officials are warning people to watch out for possible signs of a flesh-eating parasite.
At Brazil's Butantan Institute, Ricardo Bassini-Silva identified mite larvae feeding on a millimeter-scale specimen in the museum's archive.