A joint study between the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee) and the University of Pennsylvania School of ...

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The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this ...

I recently read this morning that the shingles vaccine, Shingrix, “may have a protective effect against dementia.” It goes on ...

The United States Department of Agriculture is suspending imports of cattle, horse and bison at the U.S. - Mexico border in ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea.

An eight-year-old girl was among 74 people who fell ill after an outbreak linked to an animal "petting session" at a farm park. Public health officials are investigating cases of cryptosporidium ...

The U.S. has suspended cattle imports from Mexico after the detection of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite eradicated in the U.S. nearly 60 years ago.

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The United States is halting imports of livestock from Mexico to protect U.S. livestock from a flesh-eating parasite called the New World Screwworm. The New World Screwworm, or the NWS for short ...