Hundreds of parasites have the ability to infect humans, including lice, mites and ticks. However, parasite cleanses ...

Horsehair worms can grow up to a foot long and manipulate host insects — and sometimes show up in toilets — but are harmless ...

They weren’t snakes, of course, but nematodes, also known as roundworms—and, it turns out, they’re the most common ...

Close-up of a female stolon–one of the independent reproductive units–from the worm Ramisyllis kingghidorahi. It has already ...

What’s the best thing to do with food waste? Feed the worms. That’s precisely what Michael Sessler’s science students at ...

Ox-Eye Daisy, Bellis and Yarrow ... Bed-Netting Prototypes to Target Malaria-Causing Parasites May 21, 2025 — Scientists have fabricated two bed netting prototypes targeting malaria-causing ...

In Rise of the Zombie Bugs, Mindy Weisberger zooms in on how parasites hijack the brains of their tiny host animals ...

Scientists have uncovered the genetic underpinnings of one of the ocean's most bizarre animals: a branching marine worm named ...

The Tennessee State Veterinarian is warning livestock owners to keep an eye out for their animals after the New World Screwworm, or NWS, was detected near the border of Mexico.

“Unfortunately the scar on my eye is really close to my central vision ... He said the developed world had largely forgotten ...

New Zealand faces a hidden health threat. It is Toxoplasma gondii. Cats carry this parasite. It can cause blindness. Nearly ...