During Africa’s dry season, when mosquitoes are scarce, malaria parasites in human blood turn their genes on and off to keep numbers low so infection doesn’t set off alarm bells for the immune system, ...

Lately, I’ve been starting to feel as though my friends are so much farther ahead of me in life. Every week, someone gets engaged, or announces a pregnancy, or complains of having a slimy alien ...

Three types of parasites can cause disease in humans. They are protozoa, carried by mosquitos, helminths, such as roundworm, and ectoparasites, for instance lice and bed bugs. Parasites are organisms ...

The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health ...

Parasitic infections can come from water, food, sexual contact, and insect bites. There are many different types of parasitic infections. This includes infections that can affect your lungs and ...

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

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists say that the most infectious parasite in the world may have infected 50% of people. Toxoplasma gondii is a microscopic parasite that people carry for life if infected.