The parasites are called trematodes. Two species of the flatworms were discovered in California’s freshwater fish, according ...

More than 90% of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contain an introduced parasite capable of infecting ...

Zhong Kai, a standing member of China’s preventive medical association body and a food safety expert ... which make it possible for parasites inside their bodies to grow in human bodies, too. That’s ...

Every night while you sleep, microscopic eight-legged parasites called Demodex mites emerge from your pores and crawl on your ...

In exchange for these mites emptying out gunk, the human body offers our melatonin, a hormone produced in the skin that helps ...

Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite spread by cat feces, may damage sperm and disrupt male fertility, new study finds.

In a 2014 Nature paper, Ralston described this awkward process — trogocytosis, or “cell nibbling.” It was a revelation at the ...

Male fertility rates have been plummeting over the past half-century. An analysis from 1992 noted a steady decrease in sperm ...

Soon after, he bought a 30-day protocol, marketed to rid the body of parasites. “Nothing was working,” Kurt, who is using his first name only for privacy reasons, told Salon in a phone interview.

For decades scientists have been puzzled by a tiny parasite that affects millions ... they can sometimes become deadly. Once inside the body, it chews in ulcers inside the colon, liquefying ...

Scientists have revealed how a parasite that affects millions of people every year evades our immune defenses.