Some types of meningitis are contagious. You can get it from respiratory droplets in close contact with someone. Learn about ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick- also called a deer tick - is a risk during spring, summer, and fall. A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, ...

“Don’t wait for the signs of intestinal worm infection to present themselves. According to the World Health Organization, ...

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

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

The tick may have bitten the woman's eardrum, with enzymes in its saliva causing severe pain, hearing loss and tinnitus.

The 39th U.S. president aimed to quash the debilitating water-based infection before he died. Through the Carter Center's ...

Pharmaceuticals and vector-control programmes have greatly diminished the once-widespread disease, but sustained effort will ...

Results from the malaria vaccine trial indicate that GA2 immunization provides significant protection, paving the way for ...

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

Trichuris incognita is a newfound intestinal roundworm closely related to the whipworm parasite. However, it is significantly ...

Human cysticercosis results from ingesting Taenia solium eggs shed by a tapeworm carrier, forming cystic larvae in tissues. Upon consumption by humans, they develop into a new intestinal tapeworm.