Parasitic infections remain a major concern for global health, particularly in regions endemic for tropical diseases. While much progress has been made in ...

Brain infections caused by so‑called brain‑eating amoebas have long been treated as medical curiosities, terrifying but ...

Scientists are calling for urgent action on free-living amoebas – a little-known group of microbes that could pose a growing ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso have found a sharp increase in the number of insects carrying the parasite ...

While there are plenty of beautiful sights in nature, occurrences in the animal kingdom can also be downright nasty. One such ...

Don't have nightmares, but some horrible creatures come out on to your face at night - and doctors can't agree whether they ...

Most mammals produce their own vitamin C using an enzyme called GULO. Around 60 million years ago, humans lost this ability, which scientists long viewed as evolutionarily neutral since vitamin C from ...

Schistosoma mansoni worms, the cause of schistosomiasis, a microscopic worm that plagues more than 200 million across the globe, are seen through a microscope at the lab of University of Georgia ...

Found in a forest outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the plant steals nutrients from subterranean fungi. By Douglas Main A bizarre plant was discovered near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on the periphery of a ...

This video breaks down the terrifying reality of Naegleria fowleri, the brain-eating amoeba that thrives in warm freshwater and infects the brain when water is forced up the nose. The infection is ...

Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In Africa, Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), better known as sleeping sickness, ...