Doctors are warning about the unusual symptoms of a rare parasitic infection that is common in Hawaii.

Researchers have discovered the mechanism that helps regulate the immune system’s response to helminth infection.

In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her fiery symptoms—worms burrowing into her brain. By this point, she was alert ...

I just found two worms on the floor by Savoy’s food bowl,” the woman on the phone said, clearly upset. We’re used to that. I ...

“So when it gets in a human, it can get lost, and it will go to the brain, and it’ll stay there,” Heather Stockdale Walden, ...

Parasite genetics is the study of the genetic material of parasites, including the distribution, function and evolution of genes and genomes. All genomes are replicated in a temporal order, though ...

Virtual memory T cells (T VM), activated by IL-4 during a parasitic infection in the intestine, expressing the CD22 receptor, which enables them to regulate this activation. Researchers at the ...

Wildlife authorities are asking for anglers, boaters and lake visitors across Georgia to help prevent the spread of invasive ...

The Georgia department of natural resources discovered several invasive nonnative snail species in Georgia carrying a ...

A woman in Arizona has no need of a feline farmhand now that her flock of feathered fiends are keeping rats at bay.