It literally made his skin crawl. A sewer worker in Spain had the internet gagging after he showed up at the hospital with worms squirming about under his skin, as detailed in the New England Journal ...

Move over mosquitos. There’s another blood-sucking biter Americans need to guard against because it can spread disease: the sand fly. Sand flies are tiny tan flies — about the quarter of the size of a ...

Scientists have discovered a parasite that can sneak into your skin without you feeling a thing. The worm, Schistosoma mansoni, has evolved a way to switch off the body’s pain and itch signals, ...

Leishmaniasis is an infection from Leishmania parasites. It is transmitted through the bite of sand flies that have the parasite. An infection can be cutaneous, mucosal, or visceral. There are 1.5 to ...

A tropical disease once seen almost exclusively in returning travelers is now being detected in Texas and the American South in people with no international travel history — caused by a parasite ...