The 61-year-old man received a new kidney from a deceased donor after being diagnosed with “nephrosclerosis-related end-stage ...

A shocking new study shows that 90% of freshwater fish in Southern California may be carrying parasites that can infect ...

A microscopic parasite quietly infects the brains of millions worldwide. Known scientifically as Toxoplasma gondii, this tiny ...

Toxoplasma gondii can infect nearly any warm-blooded animal and prefers to live inside brain cells ... but also vulnerable to ...

Both parasites are originally from Southeast Asia. They entered the U.S. inside an invasive aquatic snail, Melanoides tuberculata, also called the red-rimmed melania or Malaysian trumpet snail.

The taenia solium parasite enters the human body when its larval cysts are ingested. The eggs later mature into adult tapeworms in the gut over 5 to 12 weeks.

Shocking! US doctor shares disturbing CT scan that shows tapeworm inside patient’s legs He also wrote that these adult tapeworms then shed eggs which are in turn excreted into human feces.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a court in 2012 that doctors found a parasite in his brain. There's a one-in-eight chance you might have something similar. I've had one, too.

It looks like tapeworms have been upsetting guts for around 100 million years, as paleontologists believe they have discovered the first-ever proper fossil of one of the parasites. The partial ...

It’s the largest human tapeworm and is also sometimes referred to as a fish or broad tapeworm. People often contract it after eating raw, contaminated fish, beef or pork, so after the girl’s ...

Scientists are on a mission to save parasites—not to kill them. Climate change is already doing an increasingly good job at the latter, and that could be a big problem for the world.