parasites

As if we don’t have enough bad news to share right now, a tick species associated with bats has been spotted in New…

It’s been a bad year for bees. According to the preliminary results of the University of Maryland’s annual survey,…

Doctors in Vietnam this week say that they’ve made a mysterious and—if accurate—alarming discovery: A local resident…

The world is filled with disturbing creatures that slither, crawl, and scuttle. But few things are more dreadful to…

Jeffrey Sprecher, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, sold $3.5 million in stock on February 26, a month…

U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia defended herself overnight, insisting that both she and her husband had no…

A grim report from the United Nations warns that unusually large swarms of locusts will be descending upon East…

There’s no good place for parasitic worms to wreak havoc in the human body, but doctors in India say their 80-year-ol…

2019 has truly been the year of too much. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the bizarre medical cases that made…

Ancient insects similar to modern lice parasitized dinosaurs by feasting on their feathers, as evidenced by a pair…

A man’s love of delicious hot pot led him down a far more perilous path than he expected. His doctors in China say…

It’s not every day that you turn into a medical curiosity. But that’s exactly what happened to Dianne…

By the time I knew I was sick, it was already too late. I had already binged on Diagnosis and burned through The…

A species of worm that can infect human eyes has done it again, and this time it chose a 68-year-old woman from…

You wouldn’t expect that finding a tapeworm egg in your brain would be seen as good news, but such was the case for…

Parasites that control the behavior of their hosts for their own benefit are a well-documented natural phenomenon,…

In folklore and movies, silver is often one of the best tools against terrifying monsters like vampires and…

Consider the ladybug. Our polka-dotted little friend spends its days munching aphids, climbing leaves, occasionally…

In an oddly poetic act, moths will on occasion drink the tears from the eyes of a sleeping bird. Sounds harmless,…

A disease that often causes no symptoms, but which can suddenly become fatal years after a person was infected, is…