T he United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that ...

Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have even evolved sophisticated strategies to evade a host’s immune system by avoiding it entirely.

A Heriot-Watt scientist has worked with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute to develop a method to ...

They weren’t snakes, of course, but nematodes, also known as roundworms—and, it turns out, they’re the most common ...

Kevin Liévano-Romero abandoned a veterinary career in Colombia to move to the United States, where he studies feared but ...

Scientists have noted chimpanzees infested with intestinal worms deliberately seek out a certain plant with leaves that are ...

By attending the workshop, sheep and goat producers will leave with a better understanding of intestinal parasite loads, their effects, and how to manage and treat them effectively. Attendees will ...

The aim of this study was to identify intestinal parasites from wild rodents in Santo ... 1934) and analysed by optical microscopy. Eggs or cysts of parasites were identified based on their morphology ...

Mother Vic Dobbinson told BBC that her 8-year-old daughter, Alba, was one of the people who had been infected with the parasite. She said Alba experienced vomiting and diarrhea after feeding the ...

The New World Screwworm would like a word. Despite the name, the parasitic insect is actually a fly. It looks similar to a housefly, but it lays eggs inside wounds and has larvae that eat through ...

A pair of peregrine falcons whose eggs were destroyed when someone stepped on them during a live online video stream have caused joy after laying another clutch. There was widespread outrage after ...

mattheei, a livestock parasite, as well as evidence that ... but the discovery of zoonotic and hybrid eggs in human intestinal tracts suggests that approach might be too narrow, and we may be ...