The parasite that causes rat lungworm disease, long associated with Hawaii, was detected in California at the San Diego Zoo, raising concerns that the debilitating illness could become more widespread ...

For 12 months, physicians treated a 64-year-old Australian woman for a lung condition of unknown origin. They administered steroids, then immunosuppressants, then monoclonal antibodies. Her symptoms ...

An international team of scientists has shed light on the development of the malaria parasite and has identified a unique protein essential for its survival and transmission, which offers a promising ...

A parasite that may already be hiding in your brain has a shocking survival trick: it can infect the very immune cells sent to destroy it. Yet most people never get sick, and new research from UVA ...

What do you get when you take an alien parasite and smush it together with a human being? Would you get to become a supercharged, head-eating anti hero like Venom? Or would you die a slow and painful ...

A parasite once thought to lie dormant inside brain cysts has been found to maintain multiple active forms within a single cyst. That hidden diversity reshapes how chronic infection persists, ...

Scientists have discovered that Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that infects up to one-third of people worldwide, is far more active and complex than previously assumed. Credit: Shutterstock A common ...

A parasite that lives permanently in the brains of millions may not be as uniformly dormant as scientists once thought. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have recently found ...

A parasite that lives permanently in the brains of millions may not be as uniformly dormant as scientists once thought. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have recently found ...

A common parasite long thought to lie dormant is actually much more active and complex. Researchers found that Toxoplasma gondii cysts contain multiple parasite subtypes, not just one sleeping form.