A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite ...

Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have developed widespread drug resistance in both North America and Australia.

In Georgia, a 15-centimeter living parasite was found in the human brain. "This is the first confirmed case of a live ...

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is urging caution after invasive snail species in the state were found to harbor ...

The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts in soft tissues.

However, it is significantly more resistant to treatment. Scientists have discovered a new species of human parasite that appears to be resistant to common antiparasitic treatments, such as ...

Hawaiʻi is considered the epicenter of rat lungworm disease, which is spread when people accidentally consume snails and ...

Cancer grows from mutations in a person’s cells. Parasites are separate organisms that live on or in another host organism.

The state agency warns that the snails were found to have a "low-level presence" of rat lungworm. They note that likelihood ...

The research is published in the journal Nature Communications. Trypanosomes are parasites that cause deadly diseases in humans and animals, such as Human African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping ...