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

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

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

A: Before you start your dog on a weight-gaining program it is important to make sure that there is nothing that is keeping ...

Guinea worms are thin, thread-like parasites that can grow up to three feet long within the human body, before emerging through the skin. The Carter Center Humans cannot develop resistance to the ...

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

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

About a year after Jimmy Carter left the White House, he founded the Carter Center in 1982, based on a “fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering.” That mission ...

Parasite, zombie, leech—these words are often used to describe people in unkind ways. Many of us recoil when ticks, tapeworms, fleas, head lice or bed bugs are even mentioned. Coming across such ...