Parasitic intestinal worms include roundworms, pinworms, hookworms, and tapeworms. These worms infect humans and can cause various illnesses. Symptoms range from gastrointestinal issues like diarrhea ...

Nearly extinct in the mid-20th century due to over-hunting, a whopping 280,000 Canada geese now live in Michigan.

Learn more Fleas and ticks are common parasites that can cause several health ... linked to thousands of adverse incidents in pets and humans. To date, 2,500 pet deaths have been allegedly linked ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

A new study shows that nearly a dozen cities including Washington DC, San Francisco, New York, Toronto, and Amsterdam are ...

Researchers have documented the first enteroinvasive E. coli outbreak in Thailand. An enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) outbreak affecting 154 people was ...

Capybaras Are the Largest Rodents in the World Capybaras are crowned as the largest rodents on the planet, which might ...

Researchers at the University of Liège (Belgium) have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that regulates the immune ...

Fleas can also spread parasites like tapeworms and may transmit ... are called "flea dirt" and are flea feces (or digested blood). To check your cat for fleas or flea dirt, run a flea comb through ...

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Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

Hawaiʻi is considered the epicenter of rat lungworm disease, which is spread when people accidentally consume snails and ...