The Portland Water Bureau continues to detect cryptosporidium, a potentially disease-causing microorganism, in the Bull Run watershed, Oregon’s largest source of drinking water. As 2025 begins, the ...

Parasite, zombie, leech—these words are often used to describe people in unkind ways. Many of us recoil when ticks, tapeworms, fleas, head lice or bed bugs are even mentioned. Coming across such ...

An ER doctor explained how a patient suffered a tapeworm infection, with an X-ray showing the larvae all over his pelvis and legs.

Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have developed widespread drug resistance in both North America and Australia.

A new study from the Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble characterized the structure of an important trypanosomal protein ...

Jan. 21, 2025 — Trypanosomes are parasites that cause sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and various animal diseases. Diagnosis and treatment remain complex and no effective vaccine has been ...

Years after some people falsely touted ivermectin as a supposed ... said that research “confirms the true nature of cancer is a parasite, hence why, Ivermectin, in conjunction with mebendazole ...

Vega-Rodriguez and his team wanted to explore how mosquito saliva dampened blood clotting within the insect and the role that this played in parasite transmission. Blood clotting and the subsequent ...

Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have developed widespread drug resistance in both North America and Australia.