Kentucky Humane Society When a 3-month-old stray puppy covered in scabs showed up at the Kentucky Humane Society, the ...

If you’ve handled cat litter or eaten raw meat or unwashed produce, there’s a chance you might have a permanent toxoplasmosis ...

Malaria remains a persistent public health burden, with Plasmodium falciparum causing the most dangerous form of malaria and ...

To say the New World Screwworm is a nasty parasite would be an understatement. The flesh-eating scourge that tortures cattle ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service inspected livestock for a flesh-eating parasite in Strawberry Plains Tuesday.

After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

Parasitic worms that infect humans are not interbreeding with those that infect cattle as previously thought. This is good news for when it comes to controlling schistosomiasis, a disease caused by ...

Pinworm infection (Enterobius vermicularis) is the most common intestinal parasitic worm infection in the United States. It often occurs in school-aged children and can cause significant ...