Chamber pots from the frontier of the Roman Empire have provided the world's earliest evidence of humans infected with the ...

A newly detected parasite in Portugal hints at an emerging and little-understood risk in freshwater ecosystems.

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RNA technology is regarded as one of the newest frontiers in medicine, but in fact a primordial innovator got there way ...

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A tiny tapeworm never previously detected in the Pacific Northwest has been discovered in more than a third of urban coyotes ...

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that invades the human gut, often causing mild symptoms like diarrhea. But in ...

Federal health officials reported on Monday that cases of a flesh-eating parasitic infection continue to be detected near the ...

Parasites are a major global health problem, underlying many human diseases worldwide. For example, Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for malaria, plays a well-established role; however, ...

Male fertility rates have been plummeting over the past half-century. An analysis from 1992 noted a steady decrease in sperm counts and quality since the 1940s. A more recent study found that male ...