A parasitic tapeworm causing echinococcosis has been detected for the first time in West Coast wildlife, found in 37 of 100 ...

Signs may take five to 15 years to show up, which can make diagnosis difficult.

Rates of babesiosis, a tick-borne parasitic disease, increased an average of 9% per year in the United States between 2015 and 2022 and four in 10 patients were found to be co-infected with another ...

Researchers have determined how Leishmaniasis vaccine candidates, created using mutated disease-causing parasites, prompt molecular-level changes in host cells that have specific roles in helping ...

A regional office of the World Health Organization (WHO) has produced guidance to help drive the elimination of the health burden associated with a parasite. Fascioliasis is a parasitic disease that ...

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis—a disease caused by parasitic worms and second only to malaria in terms of potential harm—have been revealed by ...

Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that affects up to 1 million people worldwide each year. It is caused by the protozoan Leishmania, transmitted through the bite of a sandfly. Once inside its ...

RGCB scientists uncover new mechanism behind malaria parasite's drug resistance ...

Earlier this month, in an act of urgency after finding many young Chinook salmon dead in the vegetation along the Upper ...

The parasitic disease leishmaniasis used to crop up in the U.S. mostly among people who had traveled to tropical regions. But now, a unique, local strain of the parasite may be gaining a foothold in ...

Chagas disease is often called a silent killer because many people don't realize they have it until complications from the infection kill them. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are ...

Summer is an especially vulnerable time for getting a parasitic infection, according to doctors who specialize in treating infectious diseases. “As temperatures get warmer, parasites are able to ...