Veterans returned to the U.S. after fighting in the jungles of Vietnam a half century ago, but hundreds of them may be dying from a silent bullet — a slow-killing parasite living in the men decades ...

A study funded by California Sea Grant suggests that Chinese mitten crabs (Eriocheir sinensis) in the San Francisco Bay estuary are not infected with a dangerous human parasite that has caused deaths ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a caste of genetically identical "warrior worms" –– members of a parasitic fluke species that invades the California horn ...

Doctors in California found a throng of flatworm parasites overrunning a man’s innards—and they caught one of the little beasts on a horrifying video. The case began innocently enough: a 40-year-old ...

An international group of scientists led by Tim Anderson Ph.D., at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute and Philip LoVerde Ph.D., at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has ...

Neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs, are a group of chronic, debilitating, communicable diseases that predominantly affect those living in poverty in developing countries in Latin America, Africa and ...

Madison, Wis., July 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The parasitic disease schistosomiasis is one of the developing world’s worst public health scourges, affecting hundreds of millions of people, yet only ...

Surgery is not strictly a matter of cutting into patients and cutting something out. The A.M.A. last week heard about a new operation designed not to cut out but to filter out the tiny parasites that ...

New research by Texas A&M University biologist Dr. Charles Criscione and collaborators in Canada shows that family ties and traits such as manipulation, sacrifice and selflessness are just as key to ...

To many parasitic worms, we are the world. And the way they've evolved to live within us — without wiping us out — is stunning. As a college undergraduate, I fell in love with parasitic worms. I was ...