A resilient raccoon-carried parasite is rapidly spreading across Europe, posing a significant neurological risk to humans, ...

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_Toxoplasma_ can infiltrate the reproductive system. wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus I am a microbiologist, and my lab studies Toxoplasma. This new study bolsters emerging findings that ...

The challenge with parasites is that the symptoms are subtle. They can live silently in the intestine, blood stream, organs or other tissue for months before causing detectable health problems.

UCCE experts urge producers to monitor their animals for signs of the parasite, which has been moving north from Central and ...

Scientists claim that mature roundworms which live in the small intestine of raccoons can produce upto 180,000 eggs every day ...

Male fertility rates have been plummeting over the past half-century. An analysis from 1992 noted a steady decrease in sperm counts and quality since the 1940s. A more recent study found that male ...

An analysis of sewer drains from a Roman fort has shown that the occupants were contaminated with three types of intestinal ...

The U.S. has confirmed the first case of a flesh-eating parasite in a human, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Monday. New World screwworm (NWS) is a species of parasitic flies ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) More than 1,200 Bridgeport high school seniors celebrated graduation Friday during a ...