Millions of years ago, our ancestors lost the ability to make vitamin C. It’s long been unclear why. But Dallas researchers may have uncovered an explanation — and it involves parasitic infections.At ...

Thankfully, mass administration programs launched in the late 1980s, which distribute ivermectin to at-risk populations ...

Acanthamoeba keratitis is a rare but blinding parasitic eye disease. Experts share how to avoid it and treat it.

“Our clinical and epidemiologic findings show that the zoonotic eye fluke P. lacrymosus can infect humans in South America.

New research led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) warns that hybrid forms of the parasites that cause ...

A microscopic parasite that can live for decades in the human brain infects an estimated one-third of the world's population ...

A common parasite expands across species by abandoning sex, boosting short-term spread while risking long-term collapse.

The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health research reveals how our bodies keep it under control.

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...