Actress Claire Foy explains how she figured out that she had parasites — and what she did to recover.

Parasites have been attaching themselves to spiders for millennia. Given the large number of spiders and the wide variety of ...

She used to drink 15 cups of tea a day — along with two cups of coffee — before giving it up during parasite treatment ...

Parasites are far more common — and more disturbing — than most people realize. Some can affect your behavior in subtle and surprising ways. Others enter through something as simple as walking ...

Mouse red blood cells infected with the parasite Babesia microti acquired the ability to move, offering new insight into host-pathogen interactions.

Whether it's finding a tick buried in your socks after a walk in the woods or yanking off a few leeches after a pond swim, parasites trigger revulsion in most of us. And forget about those worms in ...

A new study, the largest ever conducted on parasites, warns that the loss of biodiversity could threaten the stability of our ecosystems. The study, led by a team of University of Washington parasite ...

A team of ecologists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has made a breakthrough that has implications for multiple fields within biology as well as epidemiology. Ecologist Ryan ...

Researchers have identified a chemical compound that may be suitable as an active agent against several different unicellular parasites. Among these are the pathogens that cause malaria and ...

Parasite extinction will have lasting and far-reaching consequences for biodiversity, and subsequently for humans. Kelly Speer Bat ticks (Ornithodoros) under a microscope. These parasites primarily ...