Kissing bugs known to spread Chagas Disease, a deadly parasitic infection, have been found in Ohio, but there have been no ...

Turkana County has declared a public health emergency following a record surge in Kala-azar, also known as visceral ...

Kissing bugs, also known as eastern-cone-nose bugs or triatomine, can bite faces and infect humans with Chagas disease.

The disease, which kills thousands of people worldwide every year, has historically only been considered a danger abroad.

Department of Agriculture is investing more than $750 million in techniques to protect the U.S. livestock industry ...

"Kissing bugs" transmit Chagas disease through infected feces, causing symptoms like fever and potentially fatal heart ...

Eating undercooked meat from wild game animals can cause a rare illness known as trichinellosis, health officials have warned. Six cases of the parasitic disease were reported by multiple family ...

Lately, social media feeds have been crawling with testimonials about “parasite cleanses” and DIY worm detoxes. Many people may be unknowingly infected, influencers on TikTok and Instagram claim, and ...

The severity of a parasitic infection can vary depending on time of the day the body is infected, according to research published in Scientific Reports. Researchers studied Leishmania, a parasite that ...

Up to two billion people globally are infected with soil-transmitted parasitic worms (helminths). Hookworms are a major cause of iron deficiency anemia because they feed on blood in the intestine.

A 64-year-old Australian woman had an 8-centimeter roundworm extracted from her brain in the world’s first case of the new parasitic infection. The Ophidascaris robertsi roundworm was pulled, alive ...