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 ...

New research has shown how the parasitic amoeba Entamoeba histolytica takes bites from your cells to use as a disguise, ...

In 2013, nearly one million school-aged children in these endemic areas were treated for schistosomiasis in Kenya.

Babesiosis, a rare tick-borne illness, is spreading through parts of the U.S. The disease could be especially dangerous for ...

While Senate budget writers are busy every day as they begin to make final decisions about a two-year spending plan, the members of the House of Representatives and state Senate ...

The yeast Malassezia helps protect the skin from bacterial infections, but only up to a certain point. Scientists at the ...