No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven't accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm infection that masquerades as a cancerous liver tumor while it slowly destroys ...

Three states have legalized over-the-counter sales of ivermectin, but people should only take it for approved uses with ...

While it has been widely found that farmworkers bear the brunt of agricultural pesticide exposures in fields and outbuildings ...

There is plenty to think about when considering how to take care of a horse. A good starting point are the following seven core areas: hoof care, diet, exercise, general health, teeth, worm control, ...

You might have ended up watching people eat goldfish for fun as a prank, but have you ever thought of probing into this bizarre habit of eating a goldfish as one of the regularly eaten food items?

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

It belonged to a species called Dioctophyma renale, better known as the giant kidney worm - one of the largest parasites known to infect humans. Doctors said the man, who was 35 at the time ...

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have recorded horrifying videos of parasitic ...

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis -- a disease caused by parasitic worms and second only to malaria in terms of potential harm -- have been revealed.

Scientists have discovered two new methane-producing archaea in the human gut, revealing surprising links to inflammation and ...

Human infection with giant kidney worm is rare with the parasite more commonly found in carnivorous mammals like dogs, otters and weasels.

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.