Researchers at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have found that stopping mass drug administration for Lymphatic ...

Parasites, including ticks, fleas, worms and more, can wreak havoc on your pet’s health, and create headaches and messes for ...

It all started when this unidentified 58-year-old Greek woman was working outdoors and grazing sheep. She noticed a bunch of ...

Animal behavior reflects a complex interplay between an animal's brain and its sensory surroundings. Only rarely have ...

If your pet spends time outdoors, it could be helping an invasive species spread—and you might not realize it until a slimy ...

Your pet might be helping spread something you can't even see.

That’s the surprising finding from a study published in PeerJ, which documented how invasive flatworms are spreading across France by clinging to the fur of household dogs and cats. The slow-moving ...

A woman in Greece experienced an extremely rare and unsettling medical condition after unknowingly becoming a host to ...

New evidence suggests that a disease-causing tapeworm that has been spreading across the United States and Canada has arrived ...

External parasites, such as fleas and ticks, live on the body of the host and produce an infestation.

A model showing the protective effects of intestinal parasites against respiratory syncytial virus in infants may inform prevention strategies, according to new research presented at a global ...

"For the vast majority of us, we can eat live worms with no ill effects – as gross as that sounds, it happens every day," the study’s author tells PEOPLE. Chiara Kim is an Editorial Assistant, Food at ...