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

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

A recent detection of a flesh-eating parasite in southern Mexico has U.S. officials concerned that the previously eradicated ...

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

According to Dr. MacMillan, one of the main reasons that kittens seem hungry is that they are going through a period of rapid ...

Doctors used a tool to look deep into her ear, a procedure called an otoscopy, and noted the ear canal was congested and ...

Without our immune system, we wouldn't last very long: this complex network of organs and cells fights off pathogens and ...

A new red blood cell parasite, Theileria orientalis Ikeda, associated with the Asian long-horned tick has been detected in ...

There are many consequences of untreated OSA, and all of these are more likely with more-severe obstruction. Because people ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick— also called a deer tick — is a risk during spring, summer ...

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