Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have ...

It's all connected: coronaviruses and other emerging infectious diseases, loss of biodiversity, and destruction of the ...

The New World Screwworm is a larva or maggot of the New World Screwworm fly, which lays eggs in a wound or live tissue like ...

There are concerns New World screwworm flies, which can be dangerous to humans, could cross into southern Texas.

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

Salmonella, EHEC and noroviruses, campylobacter or listeria – there are numerous bacteria, viruses and parasites that can be transmitted to humans via food and can cause foodborne infections. Many of ...

Ivermectin and fenbendazole are two drugs that have come under the spotlight in recent years, especially in the context of alternative treatments for various diseases, including ca ...

Lowers body temperature: While humans cool off by sweating or turning on the A/C, cats can cool down by licking. In a 2018 ...

The latter is the drug of choice in severe infection. 4. Human African Trypanosomiasis Trypanosomiasis, also called sleeping sickness, is caused by the protozoan parasites Trypanosoma brucei gambiense ...

On the latest episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, actor Mel Gibson left the veteran podcaster shocked by the controversial way his friends claimed to have treated their cancers.

The nanometre scale ultrastructures shed light on the unique cell biology of these deadly parasites ... hominis subtypes differ from common human subtypes in the copy number of subtelomeric ...