Hundreds of parasites have the ability to infect humans, including lice, mites and ticks. However, parasite cleanses ...

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

Researchers have discovered how a parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite can hide from the body's immune system, sometimes for years. It turns out that the parasite, ...

Ten thousand New Zealanders may have lost vision – sometimes permanently – because of toxoplasmosis, an infection triggered ...

E. histolytica kills up to 100,000 people a year, but researchers now have a genetic battle plan to strike back ...

THE number of people who have fallen sick with an animal-borne bug after visiting a petting farm in Wales has risen to 81, ...

Some trials are focusing on drugs that target the immune system, which is affected by different pathways to long covid.

Parasites and worms are common infections of the digestive system and are characterized by indigestion, abdominal bloating, ...

A group of researchers has developed a new formulation for the only drug available on the market to treat helminths, as worms ...

Scientists unmask a 'Skinwalker' parasite that kills human cells and then wears their skin as a disguise to avoid detection.

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