Picture families enjoying a sunny afternoon at Azalea Park, dogs splashing through water features while children play nearby. It's the perfect Lowcountry scene – until you learn what's lurking beneath ...

The totality of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism forms its natural microbiome. The ...

Previous studies have linked the parasite to mind-altering behavior, such as risk-taking, depression and even schizophrenia.

Toxoplasma gondii is an incredibly pervasive parasite that can infect pretty much any warm-blooded animal, taking up ...

Bacteria linked to cat faeces found in ready-to-eat salad bags, amid an alarming rise in food poisoning outbreaks.

These tests can show parasite eggs or the damage parasites cause. Other tests look for parasites in a sample of your skin, mucus, or the fluid around your brain and spinal cord.

In humans who inadvertently ingest the microscopic eggs, these parasites cause blindness, seizures and organ damage. The third parasite that infects indoor cats is heartworms, found in all 50 states.

A new tablet being developed to cure intestinal worms has shown promising results in trials and could help eradicate the parasitic infection, which affects about 1.5 billion people globally ...

These worms are caught through contact with food or water that has been infected by soil contaminated with worm eggs and infections cause severe gastrointestinal symptoms, malnutrition and anaemia.

Treatment efficacy was assessed based on cure rates (absence of eggs in stool samples post-treatment) and reduction in the number of eggs in stool compared to before the treatment.

Most people don’t get excited about intestinal parasite eggs preserved in 500-year-old human feces. But Marissa Ledger isn't like most people.