No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven't accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm ...

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that ...

“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

According to the CDC, the parasite can “live in water, food, soil, or on surfaces that have been contaminated with infected poop.” Public Health Wales said that cryptosporidium is “often ...

Scientists have revealed how a parasite that affects millions of people every year evades our immune defenses.

Entamoeba histolytica (green) attacking human T cells. A new paper by UC Davis researchers lays out a strategy for investigating how this parasite can hide from the human immune system while ...