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

Tapeworms, for instance. These parasitic flatworms already don't have the best reputation, due to, well, their parasitic nature and general proclivity for living inside human intestines.

Here are 10 parasites that can infect humans, and everything you need to know about them so you can avoid contracting one.

“Humans are not infected by the adult tapeworms within the dog, but instead ingest Echinococcus eggs passed in dog feces by ...

Mosquitoes exposed to the newly developed compounds show reduced malarial parasite growth even when infected four days later.