Ms Badolé suffers from loiasis, a chronic filarial disease caused by the Loa loa parasite, also known as the African eye worm ...

An ER doctor explained how a patient suffered a tapeworm infection, with an X-ray showing the larvae all over his pelvis and legs.

The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts ...

A recent X-ray scan showcasing calcified parasites embedded throughout a patient's body has gone viral, highlighting the ...

Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...

Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have developed widespread drug resistance in both North America and Australia.

Researchers at the, Riverside, backed by a substantial NIH grant, are pioneering a study on the unique immune responses to ...

After an apparent population explosion of the invasive “crazy worms” in 2023, Mainers reported far fewer of them last year.

A new study from a postbaccalaureate researcher in Mark Roth’s lab at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Cameron Suraci, shows that ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than two in five American adults have obesity, a common and ...

Trypanosomes are parasites that cause deadly diseases in humans and animals, such as Human African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), Chagas disease, and Nagana in cattle. According to the World ...