A rare amoeba caused Brooklyn McCasland to go blind in one eye — and she’s still struggling with the parasitic infection.

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne ...

A WOMAN was left blind in her right eye after a parasite burrowed into her cornea – simply from wearing contact lenses in the ...

Many people like to blame all chronic illnesses on just one thing – parasites being one of the most common. This is great for ...

Itch, he explains, is the body's way of detecting threats such as skin infections before they can take hold. These blood ...

While cryptosporidiosis, infection by the protist parasite Cryptosporidium, is rare in the United States, it is a common ...

Blood samples of patients infected with a parasitic worm that causes schistosomiasis contain hidden information that marks ...

Researchers have illustrated how a parasitic worm, Schistosoma mansoni, evades the body's "itching" defense mechanism.

The parasite has been named as Pachysentis canicola, a type of acanthocephalan (spiny-headed worms) that infects multiple ...

Without iron, parasites rapidly die. And getting that iron from the human red blood cells in which the parasites live and ...

In the next 25 years, more than 39 million people worldwide could die due to drug-resistant infections, a recent medical journal study predicts. The Lancet in September published an analysis with ...

Intestinal parasites are small organisms that live in human intestines and feed off the host Read on to know how papaya seeds ...