Trichuris incognita is a newfound intestinal roundworm closely related to the whipworm parasite. However, it is significantly ...

The 39th U.S. president aimed to quash the debilitating water-based infection before he died. Through the Carter Center's ...

Cancer grows from mutations in a person’s cells. Parasites are separate organisms that live on or in another host organism.

An ecologist shares his passion for parasites. From their vital roles in nature, to strange super powers and extraordinarily complex life cycles, parasites are natural wonders worthy of protection.

Parasitic infections happen when parasites enter a human or animal body, taking nutrients from the body for themselves.

There are two types of human intestinal parasites, protozoa – single-celled organisms that can multiply inside the human body – and helminths, organisms such as tapeworms, roundworms and ...

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 ...

Parasites are organisms that survive by living on or inside a host body and feeding off its nutrients. They have the ability to inflict various health issues like digestive problems, fatigue ...

OSAKA--The parasite responsible for malaria generates a look-alike of a human protein to suppress the ... As plasmodium is resistant to the immune system, the body's self-defense system, humans ...

A terrifying parasite that hasn’t breached North America ... where they can enter the bloodstream and cause an infestation of larvae in the body. US Department of Agriculture “With this ...

That human is Jeong Su-in, a store cashier, who begins to wonder if she’s the only being inside her body. Once they infect humans these parasites control the human’s brain but that’s not ...

P. falciparum is introduced into the body via a mosquito bite. The parasite grows and multiplies first in the liver, then uses human red blood cells as a nursery in which to replicate and release ...