Parasite, zombie, leech—these words are often used to describe people in unkind ways. Many of us recoil when ticks, tapeworms ...

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

An ecologist shares his passion for parasites. From their vital roles in nature, to strange super powers and extraordinarily complex life cycles, parasites are natural wonders worthy of protection.

The 39th U.S. president aimed to quash the debilitating water-based infection before he died. Through the Carter Center's ...

Parasitic infections or worms can affect anyone, regardless of age or location. While often associated with unsanitary ...

it doesn’t replace any part of the ant’s body—it manipulates rather than substitutes. These are ingenious strategies, but neither parasite actually becomes a part of the host in the same way ...

A deadly, flesh-eating parasite is threatening a resurgence in the United States and the rapid spread of infection is being ...

Giardia parasites mimic human cell functions to break apart cells in the gut and feed inside, researchers found. This also allows bacteria already present in the body to join in and feed from the ...

That human is Jeong Su-in, a store cashier, who begins to wonder if she’s the only being inside her body. Once they infect humans these parasites control the human’s brain but that’s not ...

So far, no preventative vaccination against malaria exists, and its control depends heavily upon antimalarial drugs that kill parasites inside the human body. Malaria has been noted for more than ...