Millions of years ago, our ancestors lost the ability to make vitamin C. It’s long been unclear why. But Dallas researchers may have uncovered an explanation — and it involves parasitic infections.At ...

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) researchers discovered “unusually” high levels of the Chagas disease parasite found ...

Because there is no effective vaccine or treatment for neosporosis, the disease can only be avoided by serologic testing ...

Human-caused habitat destruction and pollution has led to various downstream consequences — among them, the spread of various diseases. In Brazil, scientists are warning about a debilitating parasitic ...

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...

Researchers have discovered that brown rats living near Atlanta, Georgia are carrying a parasite called rat lungworm, or Angiostrongylus cantonensis. The parasite can cause rat lungworm disease, which ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that ...

Lyme disease may hold the distinction of being the most commonly reported tick-borne disease in the U.S. — but it’s not the only one. Babesiosis, a rare tick-borne parasitic disease, is spiking in ...

Cases of babesiosis increased 9% per year, on average, between 2015 and 2022 and nearly half were co-infected with another tick-borne illness such as Lyme disease, according to a new study HERSHEY, Pa ...

Understanding these evolutionary relationships can help scientists predict which species may become disease carriers in the ...

A disease is killing sea urchins in the Caribbean. There's evidence to suggest it could be turning into a pandemic for these marine invertebrates. That, in turn, would impact already ailing coral ...