Parasitic diseases, which are passed on to people via parasites found in contaminated food, water, soil or bugs that bite humans, can be relatively uncommon in some parts of the world. In other ...

The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm on the rising number of drug-resistant bacterial infections.

Once confined to Latin America, Chagas disease – a potentially deadly parasitic infection that is spread in a gross way – is ...

Reports of a rare, but potentially fatal, parasite are on the rise in Canada. The disease alveolar echinococcosis (AE) occurs regularly in certain areas of Europe and Asia, but had been virtually ...

Kansas State University is monitoring an invasive tick that has appeared in the Sunflower State, which can make infected ...

As the world’s climate warms, parasite-carried wildlife diseases will move north, with animals in cold far-north and high-altitude regions expected to suffer the most dramatic increases, warns a study ...

It turns out that eating ivermectin is good for something after all. If you’re a deer, that is. And if the goal is to kill the ticks that are biting you—ticks that carry diseases that threaten humans.

Though schools are not the only place transmission occurs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... more people have searched Google for information about the blood-sucking parasites and are ...

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