After decades of stalled progress, new vaccines, treatments and genetic tools are helping scientists protect children and ...

The New World screwworm flies lay their eggs in wounds, noses, ears, eyes or mouths. Their eggs develop into parasitic larvae ...

New world screwworm is a parasitic fly. Unlike most flies that lay eggs on dead tissue, this one lays its eggs in open wounds ...

University of Cincinnati graduate Joshua Carlson holds a container of uninfected kissing bugs, the insects responsible for transmitting the parasite responsible for Chagas disease. He was lead author ...

If you live in Africa, parasitic worms and mosquitos are some of your worst enemies. Together, they infect millions of people, causing horrible diseases like river blindness or conditions like ...

NEW ORLEANS — It's one of the leading causes of heart disease in Latin America, and it's caused by a parasite that gets inside of you from a bug bite. Now the CDC wants people in Louisiana and other ...

Heartworm disease is caused by the parasite Dirofilaria immitis. It is spread to dogs by mosquitoes and can be fatal. Adult ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A bug that you’ve probably seen around could be carrying a dangerous disease. It’s nicknamed the “kissing bug”. WTOC sat down with a doctor at Memorial Health. The Centers for ...

The most dangerous malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is responsible for nearly half a million deaths annually across Africa and Southeast Asia. Of increasing concern, this parasite is now ...

LMU-Scientists uncover key proteins that control how Toxoplasma gondii assembles the machinery it uses to invade host cells. Researchers at LMU, in collaboration with the European Molecular Biology ...

Chagas disease is often called a silent killer because many people don't realize they have it until complications from the infection kill them. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are ...