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

A new study sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other animals establishes long-term infections in hosts.

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

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

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Travelers' diarrhea is typically moderately to severely urgent. Learn about nonprescription medicines, antibiotics, and ...

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

Malaria kills over 600,000 people a year, and as the climate warms, the potential range of the disease is growing. While some ...

Scientists from the University of Dundee and the University of Vermont have identified two compounds that could lead to effective treatments for cryptosporidiosis (Crypto). The disease ...

Scientists discover a potential new treatment for Cryptosporidiosis in calves, offering hope to farmers struggling with this costly ...

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