In a move that sounds like science fiction, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA) is gearing up to begin a decades‑old ...

Recently, however, the severe human consequences of the screw worm have been apparent at the central Dr Mario Catarino Rivas ...

Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...

Today's Bug of the Week raises the “ick” factor to a higher level. Looking like something out of a sci-fi movie, Vivivanne ...

"The discovery was made in a West African parasite population during a study led by Dr. Abhinaya Venkatesan, a researcher at ...

We are entering the "Dog Days of Summer." Heat, humidity, grassy weeds, broadleaf weeds, confused weeds, mosquitoes, mowing, ...

And the worms needn’t be alive: Even molecules collected from crushed worm eggs improved metabolism. The going hypothesis is that metabolic problems kick off a vicious immunometabolic cycle.

Right at the heart of the Salcombe-Kingsbridge Estuary lies ‘The Saltstone’, an unassuming small island that has variously ...

A parasitic roundworm, usually found in brains of unlucky python snakes was recently surgically removed from a human. And ...

Pinworm infections are highly contagious. When the person with a pinworm infection scratches the affected area, the eggs transfer to the fingers and under the fingernails. The eggs can transfer to ...