A 3-year-old boy in Indonesia was misdiagnosed with constipation — until he vomited worms. Surgeons found his intestines ...

Squeezed from the skin of a stonefish, a recently discovered toxin shows enormous promise, according to researchers in Far ...

Zombies are real – not in the walking dead sense, but there are parasites that can hack the brains of living creatures and ...

Looking at Kyla Fuller today it is almost impossible to imagine that she spent more than a decade desperately ill.

The red mite is arguably the most notorious in poultry farms," states Yahaya Were, a poultry veterinarian. It is followed ...

The USDA best describes the etymology of the name screwworm: ...

If dogs suddenly start scratching or licking themselves more often, there may be more to it than just a harmless itch. A flea ...

Discover how long baby birds stay in the nest, how long it takes bird eggs to hatch, how baby birds learn to fly and more ...

In fact, social monogamy is extremely common in birds and somewhat common in mammals, while sexual monogamy is vanishingly ...

Parasites are becoming resistant to common livestock medications; strategic treatment and monitoring might be the better way ...

Infections with parasites often entail no recognizable signs in many wildlife species, but can have still negative effects across generations. Infected animals often have a slightly reduced body size ...