Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO Parasitic infections can invade practically any part of the body. Brain parasites, ...

In other cases, parasites can kill their host. Perhaps the most gruesome type of parasite, parasitoids, kill their hosts in order to reproduce. The disturbing chest-bursting scene from the 1979 ...

A rare and unfortunate sequence of events allowed a deadly type of malaria ... infected mosquito bites humans - or animals. There are lots of different strains of parasite and one of the most ...

But rather than do this, I have decided to be measured and scientific, and convey objectively the destructive and (occasional) helpful things that parasites do to the human body. Despite our suits ...

Giardia parasites mimic human cell functions to break apart cells ... Researchers found the giardia parasite produces two types of protein that enable it to cut through layers of protective ...

We are interested in applying methods from community ecology to study the process of disease in complex assemblages of hosts and parasites. Unfortunately, the types of data necessary to address such ...

The underreporting of parasitical infections in humans caused by Spirometra reveals a gap in public health awareness in Brazil, making the discovery of the parasite in jaguars a key breakthrough ...