A University of California, Riverside team of scientists has found that Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite affecting up to ...

But it all starts with dogs and their wild cousins, which are definitive hosts for neospora. After a dog eats infected ...

A common parasite long thought to lie dormant is actually much more active and complex. Researchers found that Toxoplasma ...

The New World screwworm flies lay their eggs in wounds, noses, ears, eyes or mouths. Their eggs develop into parasitic larvae ...

Scientists report unusually high Chagas disease parasite rates in kissing bugs collected near the U.S.-Mexico border region.

Rates of babesiosis, a tick-borne parasitic disease, increased an average of 9% per year in the United States between 2015 and 2022 and four in 10 patients were found to be co-infected with another ...

An outbreak of the flesh-eating New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) has killed seven people and infected at least 1 ...

Acanthamoeba keratitis is a rare but blinding parasitic eye disease. Experts share how to avoid it and treat it.

Chagas is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted by the triatomine bug, also known as the kissing bug because it usually bites close to the lips. The bugs defecate on the skin ...

Two very different patients, a farmer and a medical student, show how lung diseases can hide behind unusual symptoms. A ...

Once thought to be a danger largely reserved for travelers, a flesh-eating parasite known as Leishmania mexicana is now likely spreading locally through some sand flies native to the southern U.S., a ...

Learn how heartworm disease became widespread in dogs, reflecting an evolutionary history that spans back to ancient times.