Food poisoning, a widespread illness, stems from consuming food contaminated with bacteria, viruses, or parasites. Symptoms ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

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A study has revealed how up to 30 percent of Americans could be infected with a dangerous parasite. According to researchers ...

Researchers from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and Texas A&M University recently gathered their ...

Heat waves significantly increase parasite burden and disease spread, with effects up to 13-fold depending on heat wave intensity, duration, baseline temperature, and timing of exposure.