A second man from Albany, N.Y., aged 66, who received the donor’s other kidney also developed a parasitic infection, the ...

A 43-year-old man discovered a dragon worm parasite up to 70cm long in his leg after self-extracting it at home, prompting ...

Some parasites can infect human eyes. Without treatment, these infections can lead to eye pain, vision problems, and in some cases, blindness. Parasites are organisms that live in, or on, another ...

Once the sore is expressed a worm comes out of it. The fly is found widely in large parts of northern South Africa, as well as large parts of Africa. Dogs and rodents are usually the hosts, but humans ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

You can’t see them or feel them, but nearly every adult human hosts these mites. Measuring just 0.15 to 0.4 millimeters in length — smaller than the tip of a needle — they are a permanent ...

Louisiana is on the brink of allowing ivermectin to be sold in pharmacies without a prescription. The measure awaits the ...

Two Guatemalan pilots and a Mexican agronomist engineer have died after their plane crashed in southern Mexico near the border with Guatemala as they freed sterile flies meant to stop the spread of ...

Cucumbers are a summer staple but they need to be handled with care While they are not inherently infectious they can become ...

While most people are wary of copperhead snakes and black widow spiders, there are other potentially dangerous creepy crawly things you might meet.

Pinworms are the cause of a highly contagious intestinal infection in humans. Learn about its symptoms, the tape test, and effective methods of treatment.

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